Culture and

Identity
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Culture and Identity



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Theories of Culture
Consensus and Conflict-based Structuralist theories;
High and low culture;
Elite theory;
Folk culture;
Pluralist perspectives;
Humanistic Marxism;
Interactionism and the social construction of meaning.
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Cultural Diversity
The problem of existence;
Structural and cultural universals;
Ethnocentrism and cultural relativity;
Reactive and independent subcultural types.
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Identity 
The development of Self;
The "I" and the "Me";
The social construction of Self and Identity;
The presentation of Self;
Interactionist and Structuralist perspectives on Self-development.
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Sources of Identity
Explaining identity;
Gender;
Age;
Region;
Ethnicity;
Social class.
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The Web of Identity
This small (two slide) Presentation can be used to introduce (or revise) the concept of identity and its relationship to other groups of sociological concepts.
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AS Revision Tests
Multiple-choice revision tests "designed to consolidate student learning" (Or something).
Currently available tests:
Culture and Identity

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Textbook  
AS Sociology For AQA [2nd Edition] 

The more astute (bless you) among you will have noticed that "Culture and Identity" is a new addition to the 2008 AQA AS Sociology Specification Unit (it's actually appeared once before with this exam board, in the dim'n'distant past, but that's another story - remind me to tell it to you sometime, it's actually quite funny, in a "not-actually-amusing-at-all" kind of way).

This being the case you're probably thinking "I need to buy this competitively priced textbook to help me in my studies and get that "A" Grade I haven't got a hope in hell of getting without it" (or words to that effect - please note that individual thoughts may vary).

Did You Know - that with the electronic version it's possible to purchase just this Module, not the whole book? Progress - Whew! - ain't it amazing? 

 

As Sociology for AQA
Chris. Livesey and Tony Lawson
2nd Edition
(March 2008)


Electronic Version