Sociology

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Sociology

• Course Map

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What is Sociology?

• It is the study of how we live in modern
  industrial societies
• of how we create social structures
• and how we interact with them and each other

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What are the topics?

• The Family
• Mass Media
• Education
• Wealth and Poverty
• Health

• Religion
• World Sociology
• Crime and Deviance
• Social Stratification

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The Sociology of the Family

• Family structures and diversity
• Functions of the family
• Roles within the family
• The family in crisis

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Mass Media

• Different models of how the media work
• How the media represent gender, race, sexuality
  etc
• How the gate-keepers select media content

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Education

• The social functions of education
• Differences in success based on class, ethnicity
  and gender
• Interactions in the classroom
• Recent changes in education

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Wealth and Poverty

• Definitions of wealth and poverty
• Explanations of poverty by social group
• Solutions to poverty

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Health

• Social construction of health, illness
  disability
• Unequal distribution of health health care
  provision
• Different approaches to the study of mental
  illness
• Different explanations of the role of medicine
  health professionals

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Sociology of Religion

• Different theories about the function of religion
• Types of religious groups - from church to sect
  and cult
• Discussion of the decline of religion in society

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World Sociology

• Explanations of development and under-development
• Impacts on gender, health and education
• Globalisation
• Aid strategies

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Crime and Deviance

• Different explanations of crime and social
  disorder
• Crime and deviance by gender and ethnicity
• Sociological study of suicide

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Social Stratification

• Different ways of measuring social class
• Exploration of life chances in relation to
  class, gender, ethnicity and age
• Class and social mobility

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Year 12
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Year 13