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AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: New Media
Objectives:
To understand the impact of new media on its audiences and society.
Key terms / studies /concepts:
Cultural convergence
Participatory culture
Collective intelligence
Digital divide
Digital underclass
Social capital
Key Question:
What is the impact of new media on society?
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: Active Audience Models (Two-Step Flow, Cultural Effects etc)
Objectives:
To understand the way in which audiences react to violence in the media
Understand the application of evidence and studies of audiences and violence in the media and in real life.
Evaluate theories on the relationship between audiences and violence in the media and in real life.
Key terms:
Homogeneous audience
Disinhibition effect
Deviancy amplification
Scapegoat
Key Questions:
How influential is violence in the media?
AQA AS Sociology- Families & Households: Family and Social Policy
Objectives:
To outline social policies in the UK and other countries
To understand and compare the different theorists’ views on social policy
Key terms/concepts:
Social Policy
New Labour
New Right
Key Question:
What are the different theorists’ views on social policy?
AQA A2 Sociology- Crime and Deviance: Functionalism
Objectives:
To outline the Functionalist theories on crime
To evaluate functionalist theories on crime
Key terms/Concepts:
Durkheim- Functionality
Merton- Strain
Cohen-Status
Cloward and Ohlin- Opportunity structures
Miller- Focal concerns
Key Questions:
How can you evaluate the Functionalist view of crime?
AQA A2 Sociology- Crime and Deviance: Introduction
Objectives:
To define crime and deviance
To understand that both crime and deviance are socially constructed.
Key terms:
Crime
Deviance
Social construct
Key Questions:
How can we define crime and deviance?
AQA AS Sociology- Families & Households: Demography
Objectives:
To become familiar with the trends in birth rate, death rate, life expectancy, family size, age at which women have their first child and migration.
To become familiar with the reasons for the changes in the trends in birth rate, death rate, life expectancy, family size, age at which women have their first child and migration.
Key terms/concepts:
Demography | Fertility rate | General fertility rate| Total fertility rate
Key Question:
What are the trends and patterns with families in the UK?
AQA AS Sociology: Research Methods- Introduction
Objectives:
To gain an understanding of the importance of research methodology in Sociology.
Key terms:
Research
Explanations
Objective
Methodology
Key Questions:
How do we look into and explore problems in society
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: Influences on news content
Objectives:
To understand the various influences behind the selection of media news content
Key terms:
News management
News diary
Social construct
Key Questions:
What sort of influences do you think there are for the selection of media news content?
AQA AS Sociology- Families and Households: Functionalism (Parsons) and the symmetrical family
Objective:
To apply and compare theoretical perspectives on the family (AO2)
To evaluate the functionalist explanation of the family and its relationship to social change (AO3)
Key terms/concepts:
Consensus
Socialisation
Instrumental and Expressive Role
Symmetrical family
Key Questions:
How can we compare the sociological evidence of the family to the relationship between family and social change?
AQA AS Sociology- Families & Households: Functionalism and the family (Murdock)
Objective:
To understand the functionalist view of the family
To evaluate criticisms of Functionalist views of the family
Key terms/concepts:
Consensus
Socialisation
Instrumental Role
Expressive role
Key Questions:
What do Functionalists think about the family? What are their interests?
How can the Functionalist view be criticised?
AQA AS Sociology- Families & Households: Family Diversity Essay Exemplar
Objective:
To account for reasons behind diversity in the family
To understand how to plan and write a sociology essay
Key terms/concepts:
Family Diversity
Family types
Key Questions:
What are the reasons behind family diversity?
How do we put together a 20 mark answer?
How should we structure our answers to demonstrate our knowledge?
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: Media and Globalisation
Objectives:
To understand cultural and media imperialism theories of globalisation
To know cultural flows and network and reception theories of globalisation
Examine studies and evidence of competing models of globalization
Key terms:
Globalisation
Cultural imperialism
Public sphere
Key Questions:
What is our understanding of globalisation?
How has globalisation impacted the public sphere?
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: Tasks and Activities
A range of resources and activities for the start of this A2 unit (Ownership, control and mass/popular culture)
Includes:
- Research task for marketplace activity
- Key terms for Bingo
- Research and comprehension
- Key questions
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: Media and Mass Culture
-To understand the mass culture debate
-To evaluate the competing theoretical positions.
Key terms:
Mass culture
Folk culture
Popular culture
Key Questions:
What media changes have taken place and how has it changed our ‘mass culture’?
What are the concerns of the right and left wing?
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: Media and Culture
Objective:
-To understand the mass culture debate
-To evaluate the competing theoretical positions.
Key terms:
Mass culture
Folk culture
Popular culture
Key Questions:
What media changes have taken place and how has it changed our ‘mass culture’?
What are the concerns of the right and left wing?
AQA A2 Sociology- Mass Media: Ownership and Control
LO: To understand the relationship between ownership and control of the mass media
A LOT of the theory and researchers broken up with a few tasks.
- Definitions
- Concepts
- Marxist and Neo-Marxist ideas
- Evaluation and AO3 focus
Enjoy!
AQA Introduction to AS Sociology- Key Concepts
A good intro for AS Sociology with the initial key concepts with activities including:
- Society
- Norms and Values
- Socialisation
- Social control
Enjoy!