Integrated concepts Flashcards
Fundamental concepts
Fundamental: Persons
Individuals develop in social and environmental settings, influenced by communication, sharing values, and cooperation. Their identity is shaped by interactions at micro, meso, and macro levels of society.
Fundamental: Society
Society comprises people, groups, networks, institutions, and systems, with local, national, regional, and international patterns of relationships and organization. Individuals belong to informal and formal groups, all contributing to unique cultures.
Fundamental: Culture
Culture is the shared knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors that give societies coherence, identity, and distinctive way of life, encompassing beliefs, customs, values, norms, laws, governance, arts, and technologies.
Fundamental: Environment
Society’s physical setting and attitudes significantly influence interactions between individuals, society, culture, and environment. Unique cultures emerge from interactions with immediate environments, with different locations offering opportunities and constraints.
Fundamental: Time
Time is a concept that changes over time, influencing our perceptions of the present and future. It is best studied in context, considering past, present, and future events, and in relation to continuity and change.
Additional concepts
Additional: Power
Power is the ability or capacity to influence or persuade others to a point of view or action to which
they may not always agree. Exercising power is important in initiating or preventing change.
Additional: Authority
Authority, a legitimate use of power, is crucial for decision-making, initiating change, and maintaining continuity in society, ensuring the resolution of societal issues and disputes.
Additional: Gender
Gender refers to socially constructed differences between males and females, organizing social life, roles, work, and behavior. It also encompasses cultural ideals, identities, and stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, reflecting societal values.
Additional: Identity
Identity is a sense of self formed over time through interactions at various societal levels, influenced by factors like gender, sexuality, family, class, ethnicity, beliefs, social status, group membership, and national pride.
Additional: Technologies
Technologies are tools used in society for interactions, leading to innovation and change at micro, meso, and macro levels. The value placed on technologies influences change rate and culture, with communication-based technologies facilitating interaction.
Additional: Globilisation
Globalisation involves the integration and sharing of goods, capital, labor, services, knowledge, leisure, sport, ideas, and culture between countries, influenced by technologies and media integration, leading to increased global consciousness.
