Key term
AQA A-Level Sociology 7192
Education
Topic overviewThe role and functions of educationClass differences in educational achievementLabelling, subcultures and processes within schoolsGender and educational achievementEthnicity and educational achievementSelection and marketisationPrivatisation and vocational educationEducational policy, equality and globalisation
Methods in Context
Theory and Methods
Culture and IdentityOptional topic
Families and HouseholdsOptional topic
Topic overviewFunctionalist views of the familyMarxist and feminist views of the familyThe New Right, postmodernism and family policyMarriage, cohabitation and divorceFamily diversity and the personal life perspectiveConjugal roles and domestic labourPower relationships and domestic violenceThe social construction of childhoodBirth rates and death ratesFamily size and the ageing populationMigration and globalisation
HealthOptional topic
Work, Poverty and WelfareOptional topic
Beliefs in SocietyOptional topic
Topic overviewIdeology and science as belief systemsFunctionalist views of religionMarxist and feminist views of religionReligion as a force for social changeChurches, sects, denominations and cultsNew religious movements and New Age movementsReligion, gender, ethnicity, age and social classSecularisationBelieving without belonging and postmodern religionGlobalisation, fundamentalism and religion worldwide
Global DevelopmentOptional topic
The MediaOptional topic
Stratification and DifferentiationOptional topic
Crime and Deviance
Topic overviewFunctionalist, strain and control theories of crimeSubcultural theories of crimeInteractionism and labelling theoryMarxist and critical theories of crimeLeft and right realismGender and crimeSocial class, white-collar and corporate crimeEthnicity, policing and the criminal justice systemGlobalisation and crimeThe media, crime and fear of crimeMoral panics and the deviancy amplification spiralGreen crimeState crime and human rightsDenial, neutralisation and prosecuting state crimeSituational and environmental crime preventionRealist crime control, surveillance and the panopticonPunishment, sentencing and the criminal justice systemVictims and victimologyCrime prevention strategies and their limits
The Media
Reception analysis and selective filtering
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Overview
Dominant, negotiated and oppositional readings, selective exposure, perception and retention, and postmodern audiences.
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Questions from this subtopic
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What does reception analysis argue about how audiences decode media messages?
Model answer
That audiences decode messages differently based on their social position, producing dominant, negotiated, or oppositional readings.
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What is a dominant reading in reception analysis?
Model answer
When audiences accept the intended meaning of a media message as the producers intended it.
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What is a negotiated reading in reception analysis?
Model answer
When audiences partly accept the intended meaning but modify or adapt it based on their own experiences and circumstances.
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What is an oppositional reading in reception analysis?
Model answer
When audiences reject the intended meaning of a media message and interpret it in a contrary way based on their social position.
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What is selective exposure?
Model answer
The tendency for audiences to choose media that confirms their existing views.
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What is selective perception?
Model answer
The tendency for audiences to interpret media content through their own existing frameworks and beliefs.
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