Introduction to Sociology

Access NursingTutor: Elspeth Cordell

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

Whiteboard task5 : Nursing

Sociological Themes

• How are people using Facebook?

• How do you use Facebook?

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