Important Dates

Important Dates

Culture Jam--September 20th
Article Analysis- October 2nd
Test 1 Intro- October 10th
Forces of Social Change Group Presentation-November
Test 2-Social Change-Monday November 26th

Stage 1-Tuesday November 20th
Stage 2-Friday November 30th

Stage 3-Monday December 3rd
Stage 4-Friday December 14th
Stage 5-
Social Awareness Expo Wednesday December 19th
Test 3- Social Trends Quiz- Thursday December 20th

Social Science Movie Critic Review- January 16th
Final Performance Task--TBD

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Exam Review



Society Challenge and Change
Exam Review
social science
behaviour
discipline
anthropology (types of)
culture
psychology (types of)
sociology

cultural hegemony

school of thoughts (3 anthro, 3 pysch, 5 soc)

Theorists & their Theories
Freud
Marx/Neo-Marxism
Maslow
Milgram
Boulder & Barker
Allport

Dominant culture
social change
cultural evolution
agents of social change
developed/developing countries
invention
discovery
enculturation
assimilation
attitudes
values
norms
behaviours
cognitive consistency/cognitive dissonance theory
patriarchy
norms
exogenous/endogenous
operant conditioning

anthro theories/ideas towards social change
psychological theories/ideas about social change
sociological theories/ideas towards social change
forces of social change

charisma/charismatic
values/ value free
modernizing elite

conformity
alienation

poverty
income inequality
low income cut off line (LICO)

singularity
pluralism
inclusiveness
systemic discrimination
equal pay for equal value

technology
Luddites
social change theory
technological determinism
anthro soc and psy theories of social change and the role of technology
cultural lag theory
technology and agriculture and farming

Social Trends
Aboriginals
demography
baby boom
echo boom
Generation Z
Generation X
Baby bust
materialism
natural increase
natural decrease
net migration
birth rate
dependency load

developing/developed countries
fertility
fecundity
menarche
fertility rate

racism
xenophobia
race
discrimination
prejudice
stereotype
anti-Semitism
stages of prejudice
systemic racism
systemic sexism
genocide
hate crimes

Idle No More

Learn more here of the movement

Shocking numbers!

Check out this visual of the number of gun deaths SINCE Newtown...

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Monday, December 17, 2012

Social Trends Power Points

Intro to Trends Power Point

Poverty Trends Power Point

Social Trends Quiz Thursday Dec. 20th



Part A: True or False (30)
Part B: Diagrams (4)

What is a trend (def.)
How to read data and graphs to distinguish a trend
What are some Canadian trends we looked at in class?
Poverty in Canada
                -child poverty
                -the working poor
                -groups of people at higher risk of poverty
Population trends & Pyramids (refer to class activity sheets, and computer lab activity)
                -birth rates, death rates
                -dependency loads
                -life expectancy
-Developed vs Developing world population pyramid shapes
Generations
-Lucky few, baby boomers, gen x, gen y (characteristics of each)

Fertility and Fecundity