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