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AQA A-level Sociology: Media Topic 1 Ownership and control Revision lesson
Detailed and diiferentiated (up and down), student led lesson that recaps:
patterns of ownership
the mainpulative, hegemonic and plurlaist approach to media ownerhsip and control
formal and informal controls of media output or content.
References the following concepts: Agenda-setting Gate-keeping News values Marxism Structuralism vs Interactionism
Ownership Ideology Capitalism False consciousness Neo-Marxism
Lords of the Global Village Formal and informal methods of control.
ANSWERS INCLUDED FOR SOME MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED**
RESOURCES FOR LESSON CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PTT
Made for AQA A-level but can be easily used for other specs (just need a different source of information/ textbook)
**Based on the content in 'SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2 by Browne, Blundell & Law **
AQA A-level Sociology: Media Topic 1 - Ownership and control of output
Detailed and differentiated (up and down), student led lesson that allows students to examine patterns of media ownership and the three main approaches (manipulative, hegemonic and pluralist) to media ownership and control of media output. Also introduces studets to the difference between Marxism and Neo-Marxism and links to structural vs humanistic marxism and structural determinsm. Examines the following concepts to do this: Ideology, Hegemony, Agenda-setting, Gate-keeping, News values, Marxism Neo-Marxism, Lords of the Global Village.
ANSWERS TO MAIN ACTIVITIES INCLUDED**
RESOURCES FOR LESSON CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PTT
Made for AQA A-level but can be easily used for other specs (just need a different source of information/ textbook)
**REQUIRES textbook - 'SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2 by Browne, Blundell & Law **
AQA A - level Sociology -Media - what are sociological views on popular culture
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand what are sociological views of popular culture (e.g. define popular culture, other terms used to refer to it, explain sociological views on popular culture and to analyse and evaluate those views.
Covers the following key terms:
Popular culture
High culture
Low culture
Mass culture
Critical Theory
Social repression (extension)
Social conformity (extension)
Tabloidisation
Infotainment
Key terms you SHOULD know that might come up:
Social control, False consciousness, Profit, Ideology, Dominant ideology/Hegemony, Class inequality, Pluralism, Neo-Marxism, Media products, Media technology, Agenda-setting, Gate-keeping, Lords of a Global village
Covers the following key sociologists: Marcuse, The Frankfurt School, Strinati, Livingston, Curran et al (2009)
**REQUIRES textbook - 'SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2 by Browne, Blundell & Law **
Answers to all main activities included
Includes a 10 marker with three model paragraph plans
RESOURCES AT THE END OF PPT
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
1. AQA A-level Sociology - Media: Pluralist, Critical theorists & Postmodernists views
**Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that help students understand Pluralist, Critical theorists & Postmodernist views of society. Students should be able to explain how pluralist, critical and postmodernist view the globalisation of popular culture. To analyse and evaluate how pluralist, critical and postmodernist view the globalisation of popular culture.
Covers the following key terms: [Cultural] Hybridisation, Taboidisation, Media conglomerates, Infotainment, Hyper-realitY, simulacra
**Key sociologists covered:
Compaine, Thussu, Baudrillard, Garrod, Tomlinson, Strinati
**Key you SHOULD ALREADY KNOW that you might include in your table:
Tabloidisation- Cultural imperialism – Media imperialism Infotainment – Transnation corporation -Media conglomerates - Secondary socialisation Postmodernism – Concentration of ownership Media imperialism Cultural imperialism – Media products – Media institutions – Media technology **
** Activities require pages from the AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one 3rd Revised edition by Rob Webb, Hal Westergaard, Keith Trobe, Annie Townend**
Resources can be found at the end of the PPT
Teaching to all activities includes
ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED