Process
AQA AS-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
Culture and Identity
- 5 subtopics
- 12 things to know
- Paper 2
- Paper 2, two optional topics chosen from eight
What Culture and Identity covers
Culture and Identity is one of the optional topics on Paper 2. It runs from the different meanings of culture through the agencies that socialise us, to how identity is caused and constructed, and how consumption and globalisation have changed it.
Where it is assessed
Paper 2
One of the optional topics, of which a student answers two.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 5 subtopics
Each one has its own page. AQA AS Sociology students sit this topic in the first year.
- Conceptions of cultureSubculture, mass, folk, high, low, popular and global culture, and why the high and low distinction is socially constructed.Open →
- Socialisation and the agencies of socialisationPrimary and secondary socialisation, and the part played by family, education, peers, media, religion and work.Open →
- The self, identity and differenceThe self, identity and difference, and the debate between identity as socially caused and as socially constructed.Open →
- Identity, age, disability, ethnicity, gender and classHow identity relates to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, sexuality and class, and hybrid identities.Open →
- Identity, production, consumption and globalisationThe shift from work-based to consumption-based identity, cultural homogenisation and resistance, and glocalisation.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Key term
How do folk culture and high culture differ in their value and their social base?
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How does secondary socialisation differ from primary socialisation, and what does the family transmit?
Process
What do religion, the mass media and the workplace transmit as agencies of socialisation?
Key term
What is the difference between identity and the self?
Key term
How does the meaning of an identity category vary, and what debate does that raise?
Process
How do socially caused and socially constructed identity differ?
Key term
According to the social model, what creates disability?
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What does the distinction between sex as biological and gender as social highlight?
Key term
What is sexual identity?
Key term
How did the basis of identity shift from production to consumption?
Process
What three mechanisms facilitate cultural globalisation?
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Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Mass culture vs Folk culture
Mass culture: commercially produced and standardised products intended for widespread consumption. Folk culture: traditional practices transmitted across generations within a community.
High culture vs Popular culture
High culture: cultural products held to have superior aesthetic or intellectual value, associated with elites. Popular culture: cultural products widely consumed and enjoyed by the majority of the population.
Primary socialisation vs Secondary socialisation
Primary socialisation: socialisation in early childhood, mainly within the family. Secondary socialisation: socialisation later in life through agencies beyond the family.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What is meant by the term 'culture' in sociology?
Model answer
Culture refers to the shared norms, values, beliefs, customs, language and practices of a social group that are learned and transmitted across generations.
- 2
How is culture transmitted within a society?
Model answer
Culture is learned and transmitted across generations through socialisation processes.
- 3
What is a subculture?
Model answer
A subculture is a smaller group within a larger culture that shares distinctive norms, values and practices while still being part of the mainstream culture.
- 4
How does a subculture relate to the mainstream culture it exists within?
Model answer
A subculture maintains distinctive characteristics while remaining part of the mainstream culture rather than being entirely separate from it.
- 5
What is mass culture?
Model answer
Mass culture refers to cultural products produced on a large scale for mass consumption, often associated with commercialisation and standardisation.
- 6
What two features are commonly associated with mass culture?
Model answer
Commercialisation and standardisation.
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Culture and Identity revision questions
- Is Culture and Identity examined at AS in AQA Sociology?
- Yes. It sits in Paper 2, which you take in the first year, so it is on the AS paper as well as counting towards the full A level.
- What does Culture and Identity cover in AQA AS-Level Sociology?
- 5 subtopics: conceptions of culture, socialisation and the agencies of socialisation, the self, identity and difference, identity, age, disability, ethnicity, gender and class and identity, production, consumption and globalisation. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Culture and Identity organised?
- By the AQA 7192 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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