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5 lesson bundle that includes:
L1 AQA A-level Sociology: Media Topic 2 – Globalisation, Media and Popular culture - Sociological views of popular culture
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students cultural products and the different ways they can be categorised, explain sociological views of popular culture, and analyse and evaluate these views.
Covers the following key terms: Popular culture, mass culture, low culture, high culture, global culture, cultural products, critical theory, social repression, social conformity, tabloidisation, infotainment, passive audiences, active audiences, private ownership and exploitation.
Key sociologists covered: Marcuse, The Frankfurt School, Strinati, Livingstone and Curran et al. (2009). Includes the example of Rupert Murdoch.
Makes reference to the following key terms that students should know: Social control - false consciousness - profit - ideology - dominant ideology / hegemony - class inequality - pluralism - Neo-Marxism / Neo-Marxists - Marxists - critical theorists - hegemonic / dominant ideology approach - media products - media technology - agenda-setting - gate-keeping - Lords of a Global village - norms - values - culture - agencies and agents of socialisation - mass media - secondary socialisation - cultural capital - capitalism - bourgeoisie - proletariat - Warm Bath Theory
REQUIRES textbook - 'SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2 by Browne, Blundell & Law'.
Resources can be found at the end of the PPT: culture-matching activity, sociological-views table and key-term sheet with definitions.
Teaching to all activity included
Discussion sentence starters
10-mark question with planning scaffolding and examples.
ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
Key term sheet for lesson included
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT
L2 AQA A-level Sociology Media: Topic 2 - The Globalisation and Popular Culture
• Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe globalisation, identify its impact on popular/mass culture, explain the role of the media using examples, and analyse and evaluate these impacts.
• Covers the following key terms: Globalisation, Global media, Cultural homogenisation, Global culture, Cultural imperialism, Media imperialism, Transnational corporations, The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism, Coca-colonisation, Local culture, Global market, Hybrid culture (extension), Cultural Hybridisation (extension), Glocalisation (extension), Consumerism, Cocao-colonisation and Imperialism.
• Key sociologists covered: Strinati, Giddings, Giddens, Kellner, Sklair, Flew, Ritzer, Schiller, Pieterse and Marcuse, with McQuail as an extension and reference to Postmodernists, Pluralists and Marxists.
• Makes reference to the following key terms that students should know: Popular/mass culture – High culture – Low culture – Culture – Cultural products – Norms – Values – Subculture – Cultural capital – Hegemony – Neo-Marxism – Postmodernism – Media conglomerates – Secondary socialisation – Agency of secondary socialisation – Bourgeoisie – Proletariat – Economic capital – Ideology – Capitalism.
• REQUIRES textbook - 'SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2' by Browne, Blundell & Law.
• Resources can be found at the end of the lesson section of the PPT, before the product description and preview collage. Includes a key term sheet, a gap-fill summary with a word bank and a structured information table.
• Teaching to all activities include Think–Pair–Share vocabulary retrieval, metacognitive memorisation prompts, image and video-link progress checks, explanations and examples, deeper-thinking tasks, extension prompts, and scaffolded PED planning and PEELD paragraph writing for a 20-mark evaluation question with AO1, AO2 and AO3 guidance.
• ANSWERS FOR SOME ACTIVITIES INCLUDED, including a completed summary, highlighted progress-check responses and supporting/opposing argument guidance.
L3 AQA A-level Sociology Media Topic 2: The globalisation of popular culture – Pluralist views
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap pluralist views of society, explain the impact of globalisation on popular culture and the media’s role from a pluralist perspective, and analyse and evaluate pluralist views of society.
Key terms covered: Hybrid cultures, Cultural Hybridisation and Glocalisation.
Key sociologists covered: Tomlinson, Compaine and Pieterse.
Makes reference to the following key terms that students should know: Pluralism, Pluralistic society (extension), The globalisation of popular culture, Cultural homogenisation, Hybrid culture, Global culture, Globalisation, Transnational corporations, Global media, Global market, Media imperialism, Cultural imperialism and Coca-colonisation.
REQUIRES a textbook - ‘SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2’ by Browne, Blundell & Law.
Resources can be found at the end of the PPT: a key-term sheet with definitions, a question worksheet and a gap-fill worksheet with a word bank, before the product-description and preview slides.
Activities for all students include Think–Pair–Share retrieval, scaffolded reading questions, a gap-fill progress check, a sentence-summary task, deeper-thinking questions, worked answer modelling and item-based 10-mark examination practice.
MOST ANSWERS INCLUDED
Two item-based 10-mark questions, with detailed scaffolding and mark-scheme for one
Includes a key-term sheet for the lesson.
Print the main activity sheet on A3 paper.
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
L4 AQA A-level Sociology Media: Globalisation of Popular Culture – Critical theorists’ Views
A detailed, scaffolded lesson that helps students understand, explain and evaluate critical theorists’ views of the globalisation of popular culture and the media’s role in it. Students explore how global media may benefit powerful groups, promote consumerism and create an illusion of choice, with opportunities to compare critical and pluralist perspectives.
Key terms covered: critical theory, globalisation of popular culture, infotainment, tabloidisation, media conglomerates, media imperialism, cultural imperialism, cultural homogenisation, consumerism and ideology.
Key sociologists covered: Thussu, Marcuse and Sklair, exploring global infotainment, the distracting effects of popular culture and the culture-ideology of consumerism.
Key term sheet for the lesson included
Retrieval starter - keyword bingo revisits terminology from media ownership, globalisation and popular culture to connect prior learning with the lesson.
Deeper-thinking tasks encourage students to compare critical and pluralist views of power and consider whether audiences are passive or active.
Teaching to all progress check/ AfL activity
REQUIRES a textbook - ‘SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2’ by Browne, Blundell & Law.
INCLUDES A 10-MARK EXAM QUESTION
ANSWERS TO THE MAIN ACTIVITIES
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT
L5 A-Level Sociology Media: Topic 2 The globalisation of popular culture – Postmodernist views
Detailed lesson with scaffolded activities to help students explain, analyse and evaluate postmodernist views of the media and the globalisation of popular culture, before comparing these with pluralist and critical approaches.
Covers the key terms: simulacra, hyper-reality, pick-and-mix identities
Key sociologists covered: Baudrillard, Strinati and Gauntlett, with references to Compaine, Tomlinson and Garrod in the comparative activities.
Makes reference to the following key terms students might know: Postmodernists - The globalisation of popular culture – Cultural homogenisation - Hybrid culture - Global culture – Glocalisation - Globalisation – Transnational corporations - Global media - global culture – global market – media imperialism – cultural imperialism – coca-colonisation - pluralist – hybrid identities – hybridisation
Retrieval starter on ownership and control (topic 1) and what has been learnt so far in topic 2 of media.
Includes think–pair–share and whole-class participation activities, helping students apply pick-and-mix identities and distinguish between sociological approaches.
REQUIRES a textbook - ‘SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2’ by Browne, Blundell & Law.
Two teaching to all activities to check progress (AfL)
Includes a comparison table covering pluralist, critical and postmodernist views of society, popular culture, audiences, diversity and choice.
Exam link - linking content to 10 markers.
ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.
Key term sheet for lesson included
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PTT
5 lesson bundle that includes:
L1 AQA A-level Sociology: Media Topic 2 – Globalisation, Media and Popular culture - Sociological views of popular culture
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students cultural products and the different ways they can be categorised, explain sociological views of popular culture, and analyse and evaluate these views.
Covers the following key terms: Popular culture, mass culture, low culture, high culture, global culture, cultural products, critical theory, social repression, social conformity, tabloidisation, infotainment, passive audiences, active audiences, private ownership and exploitation.
Key sociologists covered: Marcuse, The Frankfurt School, Strinati, Livingstone and Curran et al. (2009). Includes the example of Rupert Murdoch.
Makes reference to the following key terms that students should know: Social control - false consciousness - profit - ideology - dominant ideology / hegemony - class inequality - pluralism - Neo-Marxism / Neo-Marxists - Marxists - critical theorists - hegemonic / dominant ideology approach - media products - media technology - agenda-setting - gate-keeping - Lords of a Global village - norms - values - culture - agencies and agents of socialisation - mass media - secondary socialisation - cultural capital - capitalism - bourgeoisie - proletariat - Warm Bath Theory
REQUIRES textbook - 'SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2 by Browne, Blundell & Law'.
Resources can be found at the end of the PPT: culture-matching activity, sociological-views table and key-term sheet with definitions.
Teaching to all activity included
Discussion sentence starters
10-mark question with planning scaffolding and examples.
ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED
Key term sheet for lesson included
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT
L2 AQA A-level Sociology Media: Topic 2 - The Globalisation and Popular Culture
• Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students describe globalisation, identify its impact on popular/mass culture, explain the role of the media using examples, and analyse and evaluate these impacts.
• Covers the following key terms: Globalisation, Global media, Cultural homogenisation, Global culture, Cultural imperialism, Media imperialism, Transnational corporations, The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism, Coca-colonisation, Local culture, Global market, Hybrid culture (extension), Cultural Hybridisation (extension), Glocalisation (extension), Consumerism, Cocao-colonisation and Imperialism.
• Key sociologists covered: Strinati, Giddings, Giddens, Kellner, Sklair, Flew, Ritzer, Schiller, Pieterse and Marcuse, with McQuail as an extension and reference to Postmodernists, Pluralists and Marxists.
• Makes reference to the following key terms that students should know: Popular/mass culture – High culture – Low culture – Culture – Cultural products – Norms – Values – Subculture – Cultural capital – Hegemony – Neo-Marxism – Postmodernism – Media conglomerates – Secondary socialisation – Agency of secondary socialisation – Bourgeoisie – Proletariat – Economic capital – Ideology – Capitalism.
• REQUIRES textbook - 'SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2' by Browne, Blundell & Law.
• Resources can be found at the end of the lesson section of the PPT, before the product description and preview collage. Includes a key term sheet, a gap-fill summary with a word bank and a structured information table.
• Teaching to all activities include Think–Pair–Share vocabulary retrieval, metacognitive memorisation prompts, image and video-link progress checks, explanations and examples, deeper-thinking tasks, extension prompts, and scaffolded PED planning and PEELD paragraph writing for a 20-mark evaluation question with AO1, AO2 and AO3 guidance.
• ANSWERS FOR SOME ACTIVITIES INCLUDED, including a completed summary, highlighted progress-check responses and supporting/opposing argument guidance.
L3 AQA A-level Sociology Media Topic 2: The globalisation of popular culture – Pluralist views
Detailed lesson with lots of scaffolding based on adaptive teaching that helps students recap pluralist views of society, explain the impact of globalisation on popular culture and the media’s role from a pluralist perspective, and analyse and evaluate pluralist views of society.
Key terms covered: Hybrid cultures, Cultural Hybridisation and Glocalisation.
Key sociologists covered: Tomlinson, Compaine and Pieterse.
Makes reference to the following key terms that students should know: Pluralism, Pluralistic society (extension), The globalisation of popular culture, Cultural homogenisation, Hybrid culture, Global culture, Globalisation, Transnational corporations, Global media, Global market, Media imperialism, Cultural imperialism and Coca-colonisation.
REQUIRES a textbook - ‘SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2’ by Browne, Blundell & Law.
Resources can be found at the end of the PPT: a key-term sheet with definitions, a question worksheet and a gap-fill worksheet with a word bank, before the product-description and preview slides.
Activities for all students include Think–Pair–Share retrieval, scaffolded reading questions, a gap-fill progress check, a sentence-summary task, deeper-thinking questions, worked answer modelling and item-based 10-mark examination practice.
MOST ANSWERS INCLUDED
Two item-based 10-mark questions, with detailed scaffolding and mark-scheme for one
Includes a key-term sheet for the lesson.
Print the main activity sheet on A3 paper.
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT.
L4 AQA A-level Sociology Media: Globalisation of Popular Culture – Critical theorists’ Views
A detailed, scaffolded lesson that helps students understand, explain and evaluate critical theorists’ views of the globalisation of popular culture and the media’s role in it. Students explore how global media may benefit powerful groups, promote consumerism and create an illusion of choice, with opportunities to compare critical and pluralist perspectives.
Key terms covered: critical theory, globalisation of popular culture, infotainment, tabloidisation, media conglomerates, media imperialism, cultural imperialism, cultural homogenisation, consumerism and ideology.
Key sociologists covered: Thussu, Marcuse and Sklair, exploring global infotainment, the distracting effects of popular culture and the culture-ideology of consumerism.
Key term sheet for the lesson included
Retrieval starter - keyword bingo revisits terminology from media ownership, globalisation and popular culture to connect prior learning with the lesson.
Deeper-thinking tasks encourage students to compare critical and pluralist views of power and consider whether audiences are passive or active.
Teaching to all progress check/ AfL activity
REQUIRES a textbook - ‘SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2’ by Browne, Blundell & Law.
INCLUDES A 10-MARK EXAM QUESTION
ANSWERS TO THE MAIN ACTIVITIES
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THE PPT
L5 A-Level Sociology Media: Topic 2 The globalisation of popular culture – Postmodernist views
Detailed lesson with scaffolded activities to help students explain, analyse and evaluate postmodernist views of the media and the globalisation of popular culture, before comparing these with pluralist and critical approaches.
Covers the key terms: simulacra, hyper-reality, pick-and-mix identities
Key sociologists covered: Baudrillard, Strinati and Gauntlett, with references to Compaine, Tomlinson and Garrod in the comparative activities.
Makes reference to the following key terms students might know: Postmodernists - The globalisation of popular culture – Cultural homogenisation - Hybrid culture - Global culture – Glocalisation - Globalisation – Transnational corporations - Global media - global culture – global market – media imperialism – cultural imperialism – coca-colonisation - pluralist – hybrid identities – hybridisation
Retrieval starter on ownership and control (topic 1) and what has been learnt so far in topic 2 of media.
Includes think–pair–share and whole-class participation activities, helping students apply pick-and-mix identities and distinguish between sociological approaches.
REQUIRES a textbook - ‘SOCIOLOGY For AQA Volume 2’ by Browne, Blundell & Law.
Two teaching to all activities to check progress (AfL)
Includes a comparison table covering pluralist, critical and postmodernist views of society, popular culture, audiences, diversity and choice.
Exam link - linking content to 10 markers.
ANSWERS TO ALL ACTIVITIES INCLUDED.
Key term sheet for lesson included
RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF PTT
