Overview
Over the next ten lessons we will explore and examine the role social media plays in how we interact with others and how our identities as individuals and members of society are shaped.
To help us explore social media and its influence in our society we will:
What we will aim to understand is how a specific social media platform shapes the ways people interact with each other and how these interactions shape their identities as individuals.
Lesson 1 - Sociology and why it matters
Sociology is all about the study of people in groups, cultures or societies investigating how they interact with each other and the influence of these interactions on them as individuals, groups, cultures or societies.
To help you begin to develop an understanding of Sociology we are going to start with several short videos that will begin to explain what Sociology is all about.
Over the next ten lessons we will explore and examine the role social media plays in how we interact with others and how our identities as individuals and members of society are shaped.
To help us explore social media and its influence in our society we will:
- Take a closer look at social media platforms as social institutions
- Investigate how socialisation occurs via social media platforms, and
- Identify and evaluate the range of social structures inherent in social media platforms
What we will aim to understand is how a specific social media platform shapes the ways people interact with each other and how these interactions shape their identities as individuals.
Lesson 1 - Sociology and why it matters
Sociology is all about the study of people in groups, cultures or societies investigating how they interact with each other and the influence of these interactions on them as individuals, groups, cultures or societies.
To help you begin to develop an understanding of Sociology we are going to start with several short videos that will begin to explain what Sociology is all about.
Task 1 - View the videos shown below
Take some time to view the six videos shown below. Theses videos come from Crash Course Sociology. They come from a series of 45 videos exploring Sociology - if you are interested in viewing the full course please click here.
Take some time to view the six videos shown below. Theses videos come from Crash Course Sociology. They come from a series of 45 videos exploring Sociology - if you are interested in viewing the full course please click here.
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Task 2 - In Your Own Words
For this task you will summarise each of the videos in your own words. You will use an online forum to do this. Please click HERE to go to the forum.
For this task you will summarise each of the videos in your own words. You will use an online forum to do this. Please click HERE to go to the forum.