Do Now: Try to answer the following question- What does the term “social studies” mean and what different academic fields are included?

Do Now: Write a list in your notebook of the main themes from last year's social studies class.

Insider and Outsider Perspective

Insider Perspective: The way that someone will view and understand their own culture and the society that they grow up in Outsider Perspective: The way that someone will view a culture and society that they are not a part of and did not grow up in

Cultural Relativism

Cultural Relativism : People from other cultures have different ways of viewing the world and different moral codes. When studying them, we look how they act within their own culture's guidelines.

Historical Relativism

Historical Relativism: Similarly, people from the past also have different ways of viewing the world and different moral codes. We need to try and see and judge the world through their eyes.

Bias

Bias: Everyone sees the world world in their own way and this affects what they think, say, and write. They may also be trying to convince others to see the world like them.

Political Power: Ability to affect government

Social Power: The extent to which status in society limits or expands your choices, your ability to affect the world, and the respect you receive

Do Now: Answer the following question: What are some kinds of social power that we did not mention yesterday?

Economic Power: The extent to which money or lack of money effects your choices and ability to affect the world around you

Cultural Power : The ability to affect what people learn and think

Diffusion

Diffusion: The Movement of people, ideas, or goods between different people or groups of people

Ways That Culture Can Spread ● Trade ● Migration/Immigration ● Exploration ● Missionaries ● War

Do Now: Think of an example of Cultural Diffusion that we did not talk about yesterday. Write down what it is and where it came from.