General Studies revision-The individual and society
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- General Studies
- Society and the individual
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Emotions
& what you learn when young form a key part of
- Loyalties
- Values
- Who you will trust later in life
- Your
responses are often emotional rather than rational
- e.g Northern Rock
- Society as culture
- Culture is a distinctive way of life conducted by an entire community
- Includes manners, dress, religion, ritual, norms of behaviour concerning law & morality and systems of belief
- •Consider different parts of the UK and various ways they maintain their differences (income/wealth, employment, language/dialect, religion, sport/leisure)
- Cultural Values
- You identify with a country/place – nostalgic
- Sense of fairness/freedom of speech
- Unwillingness to stand idly by with injustice
- You know inequalities in society exist (low income & poor housing & no opportunities)
- Some condemn materialism as selfishness
- Optimism from religion – Protestant work ethic / Methodist ladder of opportunity
- Change to Values
- There is less respect for others
- Long-standing conventions are more commonly ignored
- People change jobs more regulary
- Fewer people aim to live as a nuclear family
- Workplace attitudes have radically altered
- Spellings have changed drastically due to 'txt msge'
- ‘Plural cities’ are starting to emerge in UK
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Emotions
& what you learn when young form a key part of
- Socialisation
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Process
by which we learn behaviour, values & attitudes considered appropriate
- Learning of appropriate behaviour as a member of a smaller group (sub-culture)
- Primary – Early childhood with the family. You learn, absorb & accept society’s culture
- Secondary – Later when family influence is less central than school/work/leisure
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Process
by which we learn behaviour, values & attitudes considered appropriate
- Employment
- Unemployment
- Full = less than 3% unemployed
- Frictional = caused by people leaving one job to go to another
- Seasonal = caused by seasonal changes (e.g. fruit picking, etc)
- Structural = caused by out-of-date working and/or technology. New investment and reorganisation are needed to solve this
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Living
standards will fall sharply in UK
- Shortage of workers means national income from taxes etc will fall
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Greater
proportion at retirement age due to falling birth rates and death rates
- Raising retirement age – in order to reflect increased life expectancy & bonuses for 65
- Raising activity rates – getting women to work full/part time instead of childminding
- Unemployment
- Society and the individual
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