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Define Status
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Any socially defined position that a person can occupy
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Define Institution
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Stable organisational forms compromised of rules, roles and relationships that guide behaviour and meet social needs.
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Define Stratification
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Leads to the unequal distribution of rewards and resources across society.
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Define Social Divisons
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Relatively stable patterns between groups of people connected to inequalities in the distribution of power, roles, products &resources (prestige, property, wealth)
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Define Sociological Analysis
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The way in which sociologist analyse information historically, structurally, culturally and critically
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Define Sociological Imagnination
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A term coined by C Wright Mills which emphasises seeing the general in the particular – private troubles become public issues.
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List and describe the 3 forms of settlement
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-Colonies of limited settlement – (small (resources, people, and admin) military, indigenous groups remain strong.
-Colonies of sizeable settlement – Indigenous work for the admin – e.g. slavery (Caribbean -Colonies of mass settlement – Canada, NZ, Australia |
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Define Colonialism
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The control of a specific territory by a non-indigenous group through either limited or massive settlement
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Define Diaspora
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The multidirectional dispersal of peoples from their homelands for various reasons (survival, force, ethnic reasons, search for a better life, Jewish & Chinese Diaspora)
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Define Imperial Diaspora
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Multidirectional dispersal in support of imperial or colonial project. Using mass settlement of colonies to conquest these societies’ e.g Australian convicts.
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Define Agrarian Capitalism
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Capitalism centred on farming – Wool, Meat and Dairy. Farms were acquired at low costs and provided wealth to landowners and high wages to workers.
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Define Settler Society
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Societies in which Europeans have settled, where their descendants have remained politically dominant over indigenous peoples, and where a heterogeneous society has developed in class, ethnic and racial terms
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Define Social Identity
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Our understanding of who we are and of who other people are, and reciprocally, other people’s understanding of themselves and of others (which includes us)
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Define Ethnicity
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Distinctions between groups of people based on descent, cultural activities, shared origins, shared histories and practices.
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Define Primordial Ethnicity
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A concept that defines ethnicity as being innate or an essential feature if human life. It is based on shared descent and culture and is relatively unchanging.
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