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