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Module 1 — Socialisation: Conformity and Deviance
Culture, statuses and roles; primary, secondary and tertiary socialisation and its agents (family, school, peers, media, workplace); formal and informal social control, sanctions and internalisation of norms; the four sociological perspectives (functionalist, conflict, feminist, interactionist) applied to socialisation; identity construction through Cooley's looking-glass self and Mead's stages of self; deviance as relative to time, place, gender, culture and age; Durkheim's functions of deviance, Hirschi's social control theory, Becker's labelling theory, Sutherland's differential association, and structural strain theory (Durkheim's anomie and Merton's five adaptations); patterns of crime and imprisonment in contemporary Australian society.
Module 2 — Institutions: Power and Politics
Institution as a sociological concept (Robertson's stable cluster of values, norms, statuses, roles and groups) and Weber's definition of power; legislation as contested ground, e.g. the Family Law Act 1975, the 1996 Enrolment Benchmark Adjustment and the 2001 SES schools funding model; the family (forms, change since 1975, government policy); education (latent and manifest functions, hidden curriculum, meritocracy, cultural capital and habitus, funding and retention); work (sectors, casualisation, automation, alienation, unemployment and underemployment); media (first and second media age, ownership concentration, agenda setting, gatekeeping, moral panic); and, for each institution, its interrelationships, change over time, and role in stratification from functionalist, conflict, feminist and interactionist perspectives.
Module 3 — Equality and Inequality (not examined in the written exam)
How social categories — gender, ethnicity, Indigenous people, age, and rural/regional Australians (two are studied) — are constructed through stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination; how socialisation and institutions reproduce structured inequality; and the social, political and economic causes and consequences of that inequality.
Module 4 — Sociological Research Methods (folio; not examined in the written exam)
The social inquiry approach; research methods (surveys, interviews, case studies, non-participant observation); the four ethical considerations (voluntary participation, informed consent, privacy, confidentiality); and the Investigation Project — an 800 to 1,200 word report, including the student's own primary research and APA referencing, on one of three set inequality topics for one social category.
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