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BEHL2006 Social and Community Psychology - University of South Australia
Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy
PORTFOLIO
1. Why is social exchange important to analyse?
2. How do humans get their resources?
3. Name two of the four types of generalized exchange given in lectures
4. What are the two models of economics?
5. Give an example from your own life of a barter you have conducted
6. What are two of the four types of economic systems given in lectures
7. What is the key feature to look for in a subsistence economy?
8. What is the key feature to look for in a barter economy?
9. What is the key feature to look for in an informal economy?
10. What are two ways that capitalism shapes our social relationships
11. Why do families usually grow weaker under capitalism?
12. Does capitalism give people more choices in life?
13. What is one effect of capitalism on our life opportunities?
14. Why do sociologists call social relationships with strangers ‘contractual relationships'?
15. What are your obligations in stranger social relationships?
16. What are two key features of bureaucracies for social relationships?
17. Why do we interact so much with people we do not know?
18. What are two societal constraints on our behaviours?
19. What is one way that gender can limit your economic capacity?
20. What is one way that race can limit your economic capacity?
21. Why are opportunity contexts difficult to observe?
22. Why is liking not the most useful way to analyse social relationships?
23. What does ‘exchange' bring into the analysis of social relationships?
24. Using only the concepts of this course, who would you lend $1000 to (if you had it), and why them?
25. What does generalized exchange mean?
26. What does compartmentalized social relationships mean?
27. What is the most frequent type of social relationship in modern western societies?
28. What is the most common reciprocity for stranger social relationships?
29. What is special about self-identity within stranger social relationships?
30. What is special about self-identity within kin-based social relationships?
31. How can you best influence someone in a stranger relationship with you?
32. What are typical obligations with a nuclear family?
33. What is the common state of monitorability in modern western social relationships?
34. How would you describe the exchange of resources within kin-based communities?
35. Why is it difficult to break off social relationships with someone in your kin-based community?
36. Why is marriage important for kin-based communities?
37. Why do sociologists measure social relationships as social networks but not social anthropologists?
38. Why is it difficult to measure social relationships with strangers?
39. What is a problem for genograms in western social relationships?
40. What are two reasons we might help a stranger?
41. What is one effect of the compartmentalization of modern social relationships?
42. When there are complex life situations with resources at stake and you cannot exit, what is likely to happen?
43. Why can families often keep secrets well?
44. What are two defining contextual features for cultural contexts?
45. How can fictitious cultural behaviours still affect us?
46. Why do specific cultural patterns of behaviour occur frequently when groups are isolated?
47. What is an example of a cultural behaviour used with very large groups of strangers?
48. What is one reason that identifying cultural patterns of behaviour require different methodologies?
49. How should you research the effect of an historical event on a person's current behaviour?
50. Does a historical traumatic event cause a current problem behaviour?
Attachment:- Social and Community Portfolio.rar