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Welcome!
• Meet and Greet! 15 minutes • Ways to respect• What we are doing- Units • What is sociology?• What sociology is not!
What we will be doing
• 5 units • Concepts and Perspectives• Research Methods• Health and Illness • I will be your marker
What is sociology?
• 10 minute group task :• What do you think sociology is?
• Task 1 Feral Children
What it is • Social science• Empirical Based: Research
using data• Concerned with structure :
Needle point• relationships between
individuals, to groups, organizations, and large institutions like the family, religion, the economy, nation states, education, science, sports, the arts, and all other aspects of social life
• TASK 2: Suicide Rates
Suicide
• Emile Durkheim on suicide suggests that even the most individual and personal of choices that we make are influenced by society.
• Poverty, Bullying at school, workplace bullying, discrimination.
• Psychology vs Sociology on suicide
What it is not
• Social behaviour not Individualistic behaviour – examines all the social world
• TASK3 : Zimbardo prison study – Video (0.50)
Sociology looks at:
• Society and culture • Subcultures- cultural diversity
• Catholic family- eat with knife and fork- but pray before meals
Key terms and task 4
• Roles- • Values • Norms• Culture• Statuses• Whole class task- an aspect of culture: school
Values
Students
Norms
Teacher Roles
Customs Statuses
Assessments Manager (high)
Do homeworkSet homework
Respect other students Education is
worthwhile
Hand-out task
Examples of Research
• Ethnic Britain: Do we treat ethnic minorities differently?
• Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women
• Social Class: How important is social class in early learning?
• Brown Eyes vs. Blue Eyes
Recap
• So what have we done?• Introduced + ways to
respect• Looked at -what is
sociology• What sociology is not• Culture• Examples of research
Feed forwardFridayUnit 1
• Social diversity- what it is
• Looking at the family in terms of social diversity
• Looking at the following factors of the next few weeks:
• Ethnicity• Class• Gender• Physical ability• Learning ability• Age