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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?

August 8, 2017
Giddens’ Structuration Theory – A Summary

Social Structure is also only ever the outcomes of practices which have previously happened, and it makes practices possible (the duality of structure), and it is not separate from action. Giddens rejects Positivism because of its mistaken search for the general laws of social life. Giddens believes that human beings are thoughtful and creative…

March 2, 2017
Sociological Perspectives: The Basics

sociological perspectives are divided in structure/ action, consensus/ conflict, and modern/ postmodern.

July 5, 2016
Giddens’ Modernity and Self Identity – in 14 bullet points

A brief post covering the relationship between self and society in late-modernity according to Anthony Giddens, covering concepts such as Globalisation, abstract systems, ontological security, manufactured risks, narcissism and fundamentalism. This is very much my own reading of Giddens’ text – Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Gidden’s Key Ideas…

April 22, 2016