Definitions Flashcards

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Social cohesion definition

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  • social connectedness in a community
  • sense of trust, unity, belonging, acceptance, tolerance
  • togetherness, bonding
  • common belonging of cultural similarity
  • glue that bonds society together
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Social Systems

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Interrelationships existing between individuals, groups and institutions

Forming a social structure

•Family, religion , law , the economy, the church, education, schooling

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Sustainable society

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  • a society that manages its economy and population size without doing environmental harm
  • done by overloading the planets ability to absorb environmental insults, replenish its resources, sustain human forms and other forms of life over a specific period of time
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Social order

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  • the set of linked social structures, institutions, and practices which conserve, maintain and enforce normal ways of relating and behaving
  • doing what is expected of you
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Social structures

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  • families, governments, police as law enforces, social workers to protect children
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