Understanding Culture, Society and Politics

Largely concerned with the question “Who are you?” which can be broken down into our sense of self, or the global understanding a person has of themselves. 

• Context

• Content and Process

• Identity

• Aspiration

The lifelong process of learning our society’s norms, customs, and ideologies.

• Socialization

• Internalization

• Enculturation

• Acculturation

Practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience.

• Aspiration

• Discipline

• Norms and Values

• Statuses and Roles

The first social institution that a learner comes into contact with immediately after birth.

• Peer Group

• Family

• Educational Institution

• Marriage

Refers to tour social position in society at a given time, changes throughout the life course.

• Roles

• Identity

• Status

• Goals