SC1101E: Sociology - Making Sense of Society

• Fundamentals of sociology
  • The Sociological Perspective / Imagination
  • The 4 Sociological theories
  • Equality vs Inequality of opportunity / Individual freedom vs constraint
• Sociological Research
• Culture
  • Components of culture
  • Culture as freedom and constraint
  • Culture and biology
  • Culture and society
• Socialisation
  • Social isolation
  • Theories of socialisation
  • Agents of socialisation
  • Socialisation across the Life course
• Family
  • Functionalism and the nuclear ideal
  • Conflict and Feminist theories - Gender and women
    • Family names? Women taking on the male last name.
  • Power and families
    • Marriage and Divorce
    • Domestic violence
    • Reproduction
    • Domestic duties
  • Diversity of family forms
  • Policies
  • Is the traditional nuclear family in decline?
• Power, politics and the state
  • Power and authority
  • Theories of democracy
  • The future of democracy
  • Power by other means
  • Politics in the Singapore context
• Race and Ethnicity
  • Defining race and ethnicity - social constructs?
  • Race and ethnic relations
    • Labels and identity
    • Ecological Theory
    • Internal colonisation and the split labour market
  • Human Genome project
  • Race in the historical context
  • Race in Singapore
  • Advantages of Ethnicity
  • Future?
• Gender and Sexuality
  • Sex vs Gender
  • Theories of gender
    • Gender and biology
  • Homosexuality
  • Gender inequality
  • Progress in gender equality, women's rights movement
  • Gender and homosexuality in Singapore
  • Gender and sexuality in popular culture
• Class and Stratification
  • Patterns of social inequality - wealth, income, income classes
  • Global inequality
  • Class / social mobility
  • Theories of stratification
  • Mobility and class in Singapore
  • Non-economic dimensions of class
• Aging and the Elderly
  • Sociology of aging
  • Aging and inequality
  • Theories and age stratification
  • Social problems of the elderly
  • Death and dying
• Media and Society
  • The Significance of the Mass Media
  • Theories of Media Effects
  • The Internet - Domination and resistance