Introduction: Post-modernism , Social Action Theories

This pack contains a 16-slide Power-Point that introduces Post-Modernism and Social Action theories, and an accompanying booklet.

The pack also contains a a consolidation test to test student knowledge at the end of the session.

The lessons introduces students to:

• Starter: Re-cap Functionalism, Marxism & Feminism
• Revisiting Structural Theories - re-cap
• Define: Social Action Theory - discussed in relation to Structural approaches
• Social Action Theory
• Intro to Post Modernism
• Grand-Narratives - Social Institutions give legitimacy
• Status Quo/Norms - how they are reinforced and challenged.
• Plenary Task

There are TWO copies of the lesson - one formatted for MAC and one formatted for PC.