Course description

We will cover the following topics in the live classes:

Paper 3 – Education

5 Education and society

 5.1 Theories about the role of education

 5.2 Education and social mobility

 5.3 Influences on the curriculum

6 Education and inequality

 6.1 Intelligence and educational attainment

 6.2 Social class and educational attainment

 6.3 Ethnicity and educational attainment

 6.4 Gender and educational attainment

Paper 4 – Globalisation

7 Key debates, concepts and perspectives

 7.1 Perspectives on globalisation

 7.2 Globalisation and identity 

 7.3 Globalisation, power and politics

8 Contemporary issues

 8.1 Globalisation, poverty and inequalities 

 8.2 Globalisation and migration

 8.3 Globalisation and crime

Paper 4 – Media

9 Ownership and control of media

 9.1 Traditional media and the new media

 9.2 Theories of the media and influences on media content

 9.3 The impact of the new media

10 Media representation and effects

 10.1 Media representations of class, gender, ethnicity, and age groups 

 10.2 Different models of media effects

 10.3 The impact of the media on behaviour

Paper 4 – Religion

11 Religion and social order

 11.1 Religion and society

 11.2 Religion and social order 

 11.3 Religion as a source of social change

12 The influence of religion 

 12.1 The secularisation debate

 12.2 Gender, feminism and religion

 12.3 Religion and post-modernity

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