Category: Key Sociology Concepts
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What is Capitalism?
You really need to understand what Capitalism is in order to understand Marx. Wikipedia (1) is actually a useful starting point here, defining Capitalism as “an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned; decisions over what is produced and what is bought and what prices should be are determined mainly…
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The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
Below is an extract from the “The Sociological imagination” by C. Wright Mills (1959) – I get students to read through this in lesson 1 of A-level sociology and simply answer the two questions below: “Nowadays men often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. They sense that within their everyday worlds,…
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Top Ten ‘Big Questions’ for A-Level Sociology Students
Does society shape the individual? Do class, gender, ethnicity influence our life chances? How and why do societies change?
