Studying society key terms

Studying society key terms

1. Psychological approach: A way of understanding human behaviour by looking at individual makeup.

2. Biological: A way of understanding humans by looking at their biological makeup

3. Social control: Ways of ensuring people behave in a socially acceptable way such as laws.

4. Social structure: Structures orgainised around people such as family

5. Culture: Where a group of people share common norms,values and beliefs

6. Subculture: A smaller group of people who share common norm and values that are different from main order

7. Socialisation; The process of learning norms.

8. Race: A term that suggests differences in culture

9. Ethnicity: A term that refers to differences in culture but is not based on biology

10. Sex: Biological catogories of male and female

11. Gender: Social catogories of male and female usually due to stereotypes