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Bridging Social Sciences
Pathways Bridging Social Sciences NZ
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Social Studies
Undergraduate 1
04/29/2012

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What is the Social Sciences?
Definition
The study of society and human relationships; disciplines that are concerned with the systematic study of human behaviour
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What aspect of society is Political Science?
Definition
Government
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What aspect of society is Anthropology?
Definition
Cultures
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What aspect of society is Labour Studies?
Definition
Workplace Relations
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What aspect of society is Philosophy?
Definition
Knowledge and Reality; Ethics
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What aspect of society is Geography?
Definition
People in place and space
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What aspect of society is Gender Studies?
Definition
Influence of gender
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What aspect of society is Sociology?
Definition
Society in general
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What aspect of society is Psychology?
Definition
Human behaviour.
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What aspect of society is Economics?
Definition
Role of money
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What is the Sociological Imagination?
Definition
Quality of mind that allows us to go beyond what is happening to any individual and look at broader context of what is going on in society and the world
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What were the Ancient Greeks 3 main ideas?
Definition
Empiricism, Deductive Logic and Rationalism.
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What is Rationalism?
Definition
human intellect (reason) the ultimate basis of knowledge
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What is Empiricism?
Definition
Knowledge comes via sensory experience
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What was the context of the Reformation?
Definition
Christian Europe (state religion), one set of values and beliefs, afterlife more important than this one
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When was the Reformation started and by whom?
Definition
1517, Martin Luther
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Where was the Reformation and why did it happen?
Definition
Abuse of position in the Church, started in Germany and spread all over Western Europe
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What were the consequences of the Reformation?
Definition
Religious wars, new worship, Bible democratised, literacy
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What were the lasting effects of the Reformation?
Definition
Individualism, breakdown of authority
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What was the context of Enlightenment?
Definition
scientific progress – Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, political upheavals (Glorious Revolution), John Locke (ideas about knowledge and politics)
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When and where was the Enlightenment?
Definition
18th Century, Western Europe, centered in Paris.
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Why did the Enlightenment happen? Who influenced it?
Definition
Scientific progress caused re-thinking of ideas about God, authority, knowledge, society. Influenced by Locke, Newton, Diderot.
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What were the key events in the Enlightenment?
Definition
American Revolution, 1776. French Revolution, 1789.
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What were the ideas inherited and what was the key publication in the Enlightenment?
Definition
Empiricism, individualism, the Encyclopedia.
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What is Scientific Method?
Definition
A method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
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What are Social Norms?
Definition
Customary rules of behavior in a group or society that coordinate interactions between the members of that group or society
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What is Social Science Research?
Definition
The systematic and self-critical, yet limited, intensive searching for knowledge about people’s social lives, activities, and meanings
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What are the Research Methods?
Definition
Reading, asking, observing, participating, experimenting.
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What are the two research strategies? Explain what they mean.
Definition
Quantitative - information which can be readily reduced to numerical data. Qualitative - based on idea that people create social reality in their meanings and activities.
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What are the Research perspectives and who are the researchers for each one?
Definition
Positivism - Scientist, Interpretivism - storyteller, Critical - activist/advocate.
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