Sociology Introduction Notes

Aimed at GCSE and A Level Sociology students to support classroom study. (4 lesson bundle)

Introduction:

• What is Sociology?
• What are Social Factors?
• Culture

Lesson 1:

• Social Factors
  - DRCAGES (Disability, Race, Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality)
• Sociological Theory
  - Marxism, Functionalism, Feminism, Interactionism, New Right (political thinkers)
  -Marxism

• - Karl Marx and the Basis of Marxist Arguments - Key Terms - Criticisms of Marxism*

Lesson 2:

• Feminism

• - Basis of Feminist Arguments - Key Terms - Types of Feminism (Liberal, Radical, Difference/Postmodernist, Marxist, Dual Systems) - Key Feminist Sociologists (Anne Oakley, Walby, Delphy and Leonard)*

Lesson 3:

• The New Right

• - Beliefs about society - Liberal New Right - Conservative New Right*