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SOS 112 Man And His Social Environment

NCE1 levelSocial Sciences11 topics

SOS 112 covers 11 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. This idea of man as a social being and why he lives as group is the focus of this course. At
  2. Definition and types of man’s social environment
  3. Why man lives in groups
  4. Family-types, structure, functions and changing roles
  5. Forms and problems of marriage: customary, religious and ordinance
  6. Safe age for marriage, family formation, child bearing and rearing practices
  7. Primary and Secondary groups - definitions, characteristics and functions
  8. Kinship systems in Africa
  9. Factors that promote living together: love, customs, morality, Folkways, mores and
  10. Women education Family welfare
  11. Gender roles

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

This idea of man as a social being and why he lives as group is the focus of this course. At

This topic introduces man as a social being and explains why human life is organised around groups rather than complete isolation. For the exam, you must master the meaning of social being, the major reasons humans live in groups, and how group life helps survival, identity, order, and development.

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