key terms

Question 1

Society

Answer 1

People that live together and share the spatial or social territory living in a generally organized way.

Question 2

Culture

Answer 2

the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular group of people or society.

Question 3

Environment

Answer 3

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

Question 4

Persons

Answer 4

Human being regarded as an individual

Question 5

Time

Answer 5

Time refers to continuity and change. Every person, society and environment is located in time and is changing through time.

Question 6

Gender

Answer 6

the socially constructed differences between men and women

Question 7

Technologies

Answer 7

Tools humans use to assist our interactions in society.

Question 8

Power

Answer 8

The capacity to influence others to follow a course of action or point of view they would not otherwise follow.

Question 9

Authority

Answer 9

A legitimate use of influence and/or power exercised with the consent and acceptance of others.

Question 10

Globalization

Answer 10

A process of integration and the sharing of goods, capital, services, knowledge, leisure, sport, ideas, and culture between countries

Question 11

Identity

Answer 11

The sense of self. Can be viewed from the personal, social and cultural levels, Forms over a period of time.

Question 12

micro society

Answer 12

personal interactions that occur between an individual and their community e.g. family and friends

Question 13

meso society

Answer 13

interactions that occur between micro and macro levels in society e.g. school or church

Question 14

Macro society

Answer 14

impersonal interactions with large institutions e.g. news, facebook and coca - cola

Question 15

Socially and Culturally literate person

Answer 15

Show critical discernment, researches ethically and effectively, communicates effectively, empathizes with people from different cultures and shows concern for the welfare rights and dignity of all people.

Question 16

socialization

Answer 16

the process beginning during childhood by which individuals acquire the values, habits, and attitudes of a society

Question 17

verbal communication

Answer 17

sounds that come out of our mouths such as, speaking, sighs, tone of voice and groans

Question 18

non verbal communication

Answer 18

is the signs and messages that we communicate using things like body language, gestures, and facial movements.