Course topics.

Try this with Sociology

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Culture, society and the language of norms, values, statuses and roles
• Forms and agents of socialisation, from primary to tertiary
• Social control and conformity: sanctions, internalisation and agency
• Functionalist, conflict, feminist and interactionist views of socialisation
• Identity construction: Cooley's looking-glass self and Mead's stages of self
• Deviance as a relative concept: time, place, gender, culture, age and power
• Durkheim's functions of deviance and Hirschi's social control theory
• Labelling and differential association: Becker and Sutherland
• Structural strain, anomie and Merton's five adaptations; moral panic and crime patterns in CAS
• What makes an institution? Robertson, Weber and competing interests
• Family forms, change since the Family Law Act 1975 and family policy
• Theories of the family: functionalist, feminist, conflict and interactionist
• Education: hidden curriculum, meritocracy, cultural capital and habitus
• Funding, retention and social reproduction in Australian schooling
• Work in a knowledge society: sectors, casualisation and gendered work
• First and second media age: ownership, agenda setting and gatekeeping
• Stratification and power across family, education, work and media
• Interrelationships and change over time between institutions
• Planning a 60-minute sociology essay: thesis, theories and evaluation
• Using stimulus evidence without retelling it: linking data to theory