Introduction to Sociology

Overview of the key features, advantages and disadvantages of overt and covert participant observations, unstructured interviews and the case study method. (Some famous research examples are also listed.)

Study Notes on Culture (Sociology): Overview of the common components of culture (Symbols, Language, Values, Norms, Material Culture), Cultural Diversity (High/Popular/Sub-/Counterculture), Culture and Self-concept (Individualist and collectivist cultures, Biculturalism)

Overview of the key features, strengths and weaknesses plus some key theorists of structural functionalism, social conflict theories (Marxism and Feminism), symbolic interactionism (labelling/social reaction theory also described).