AQA A-level Sociology - Media: The globalisation of popular culture

• Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand what impact might globalisation have on popular culture and what role might the media have in this (e.g. how to describe globalisation and identify the impact it has had on popular/mass culture,
  To explain the impacts of a global popular/ mass culture and the role of the media in creating it using real-life examples and to analyse and evaluate the impacts of a global popular/ mass culture and the role of the media in creating it).

• Covers the key following terms: Globalisation, Cultural homogenisation , Global culture, Cultural imperialism , media imperialism, Transnational, The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism, Cocacolonisation

• Covers key terms you should know that might come up:
  Popular/ mass culture, High culture, Low culture, Culture, Cultural products, Norms, Values, Subculture, Cultural capital 
  Covers key sociologists: Strinati/Giddings/ Postmodernists, Kellner/Sklair/ Flew, Sklair/ Ritzer, Sklair

Based on the information in textbook - 'SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2 by Browne, Blundell & Law **

• INCLUDES ALL ANSWERS FOR MAIN ACTIVITIES
• INCLUDES A KEY TERM AND DEFINITIONS SHEET
• Includes an exam question with scaffolding
• RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END PPT