Studying society key terms

Psychological approach: A way of understanding human behaviour by looking at individual makeup.
Biological: A way of understanding humans by looking at their biological makeup
Social control: Ways of ensuring people behave in a socially acceptable way such as laws.
Social structure: Structures orgainised around people such as family
Culture: Where a group of people share common norms,values and beliefs
Subculture: A smaller group of people who share common norm and values that are different from main order
Socialisation; The process of learning norms.
Race: A term that suggests differences in culture
Ethnicity: A term that refers to differences in culture but is not based on biology
Sex: Biological catogories of male and female
Gender: Social catogories of male and female usually due to stereotypes

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