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1. Sociological Perspectives and Theories
The structural and action perspectives, and the theories that fall under each: functionalism, conflict theories, symbolic interactionism, and Weberism.
2. Research Methods and the Research Process
Research methods that generate quantitative and qualitative data, and the stages of the sociological research process.
3. Culture and Identity: Key Concepts
Primary and secondary socialisation, identity, culture and subculture, diversity, power and status, and prejudice and discrimination.
4. Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Stanley Cohen's 1972 study of Mods and Rockers, the concept of the moral panic, folk devils, and deviancy amplification.
5. Social Mobility: Concepts and Theories
Absolute and relative social mobility, intergenerational and intragenerational mobility, and the meritocracy debate between theories.
6. Social Mobility: Goldthorpe and Blanden and Machin
Goldthorpe's 1972 Oxford Mobility Studies and Blanden and Machin's 2008 study of intergenerational income mobility in Britain.
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