Welcome To Flying Start Chapter 2 for AS Sociology

Hello and welcome to A level of sociology Flying start

chapter to my name's Sarah Freeman and I'm going to

be talking you through just a few of the tasks

that we've put together for you.

There are six tasks overall and at the very end

there are a range of extension videos, links to podcasts,

documentaries and articles that we would definitely recommend you take

a look at as they will certainly help to develop

your love and understanding of sociology prior to starting in

september. So for task one we have suggested that you

define a few of the concepts that we use frequently

in sociology.

So these involved sociologists, social institutions, sanctions and social control.

So I would recommend that you pause the video now

go away and google search look them up in your

sociology textbooks as they always have a glossary at the

very back um and then make detailed notes and then

come back where I'm going to explain them to you.

Okay, so a sociologist is concerned with studying human behavior.

So they look at social life and social change.

They also look at the structures of social groups and

organizations within society and how people might interact with these.

The second concept is social institutions, social institutions uh networks

of structures within society that work to socialist groups of

people within them.

So examples of social institutions include family education and religion,

and for example, Law.

The third concept is sanctions.

So sanctions are mechanisms of social control and they can

be formal or informal and they can be positive or

negative. So an example of an informal sanctions would be

to ridicule somebody or shame somebody.

And an example of a more formal sanctions would be

a fine or to impose a penalty on somebody.

And the fourth and final concept that we ask you

to define is social control.

So social control is a mechanism within which society maintains

social order and cohesion.

An example would be the government whose laws and courts

to exercise social control.

So the government works to protect those within society that

uphold the rules, but it also looks to punish those

that don't uphold the rules.

Okay, So the second task that we set out for

you is to research and make some notes on the

three main function uh sociological perspectives that we discuss in

sociology. So the first one that we want you to

look at is functional is um factionalism is a consensus

theory and it's characterized by the idea that society requires

shared norms and values in order for society to function

properly. And the thing is that we are going to

be using is a meal dark.

I'm Talcott Parsons and George peter murdock.

So please do go to your sociology textbooks.

But also you can look at revising sociology or just

do general google search and make some really good news

on what functional is.

Um Is the second sociological perspective is Marxism.

Marxism is a conflict theory and is concerned with analyzing

the struggle between the working class or the proletariat and

the ruling class, also known as the bourgeoisie and the

struggle that they argue is needed for historical change, which

will eventually lead to um capitalism becoming or being replaced

by communism.

And the Marxist thinkers that we will be using our

Karl Marx Friedrich, Engels.

Um and Eli Zaretsky.

And the third um sociological perspective that will be looking

at is feminism, feminism is a social movement, advocates for

economic, political and social equality between men and women.

Um You might already know Elizabeth about feminism and if

you do excellent, but don't worry if you don't.

So there are four different branches of feminism.

So we look specifically at liberal feminism, um we look

at Marxist feminism, we look at radical feminism, we also

look at difference feminism.

You might also know that there are different ways of

feminism. So you've got first wave feminism, second wave feminism,

third wave feminism, but you also have in some um

situations where they talk about fourth wave feminism and also

fifth wave feminism.

So first wave feminism, you might already know about which

is focused on the right for the vote.

Um and you might have heard the words suffragettes and

suffragists. So please go away and do a bit of

research on feminism and the different feminist perspectives that there

are. Um you will find these in your textbooks again,

or you can just do a general google search and

see what you come up with, and we really do

look forward to any interesting points that you might find

along the way.

So the remainder of the flying that is concerned with

overall question asking is Britain fair and here we want

you to analyze and explore whether british society is fair

for all of its members and what do we mean

by that?

Well, we're looking at whether or not everybody actually does

have equality of opportunity within institutions like the criminal justice

system, within the education system, within the health care system

and perhaps within the employment sector.

So, as you work through, pleased to refer to any

sociology textbooks that you might have and also look at

different news websites, um, and revise Sociology has some excellent

resources as well as as tutor to you at the

very end of the flying Start, there are a bunch

of links to podcasts, articles, books, documentaries and more.

These can also support you with the tasks at hand

within the Flying Start, but they also push you to

think more widely on the topics and to just really

and develop your understanding of sociology and hopefully, really and

still in love of the subject.

Please do have a really good summer and we look

forward to welcoming you at Exeter College in september.

Thank you ever so much.

I.

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