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?
Sociology concepts
Sociology
Sex and gender
An Introduction to Sex, Gender and Gender Identity
The aim of this post is to provide a very brief introduction to the very complex topic of sex, gender
Postmodernism and Late Modernsim
Postmodernism in Sociology: Key Ideas and Examples of Postmodern Thinkers
A summary of the work of three postmodern thinkers: Lyotard, Baudrillard and Bauman who argue that we need to think differently about the social world now we have moved out of the modernity.
Sociology key terms
What is the Sociological Imagination?
A brief summary of, and elaboration on Anthony Giddens’ take on what the sociological imagination involves… Learning to think sociologically
Book summaries
Giddens – What is Sociology?
A summary of Giddens’ ‘Sociology’ (2017): The Introduction ‘The world we live in today can feel liberating and exciting but,
education, Marxism
The Illusion of the Equality of Opportunity
Marxist sociologists Bowles and Gintis argue that capitalist societies are not meritocratic. Against Functionalists, they argue that it is not
education
Sociology of Education – Good Resources
Useful sources of quantitative and qualitative data for teaching and learning about the sociology of education… with a focus on
Book summaries, Social Theories
Bauman’s ‘The Individualised Society’ – A Summary of the Preface
It may sound odd doing a summary of a preface, but there is a lot of heavy stuff in here….
Book summaries
Summary of Zygmunt Bauman’s ‘The Individualised Society’ (part 1/3)
Chapter One – The Rise and Fall of Labour This chapter explains that the decline of the labour movement is
Sociology key terms
Sociological Perspectives in Five Shapes
If you could represent the five sociological perspectives in sociology as five shapes, I think they’d look something like this: