Sociology

Question 1

Sociology

Answer 1

The study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society, study if social problems
- how they work
- how they change
- consequences they produce
- complex relations to people's lives
Social organisations and structures
- groups
- corporations
- University classrooms
- (dys)functional families
- tour groups

Question 2

Anthropology

Answer 2

Study if human kind, in particular the comparative study of human societies and cultures and their development

Question 3

Social categories

Answer 3

Gender
Race
Ethnicity
Religion
Age
Inequality
Power
Oppression

Question 4

A central tenet of sociology

Answer 4

The whole is greater than the simple sum of the parts
The whole includes the relations that bind parts together
Social systems are sets if arrangements in which individuals participate

Question 5

Sociology of tourism

Answer 5

Tourism not only an economic system
Tourism is a social system
Tourism is a social phenomenon
Tourism is composed of
- groups
- corporations
- university classrooms
- dys and functional families
- social movements
- tour groups
Tourism social systems
- how they work
- how they change
- consequences they produce
- complex relations to people's lives

Question 6

Individuals as tourists

Answer 6

Are they utopian seekers
Are they action orientated
Do they engage in exploratory behaviour
Are they looking for diversion from everyday life
Should there be a balance between anxiety and boredom

Question 7

Politics of tourism

Answer 7

Issues of development, including underdevelopment
Impacts on political process
Modernism and post-modernism (mcdonaldisation, mcdisney [ritzer and liska])
Sustainable development (ethics and values, power and control, inequality)