Family
The Sociology of Living Alone
Use the following New York Times article as a starter activity whereby students are to draw out the suggested advantages of living alone:
Learn More One’s a Crowd, a New York Times article
An interesting discussion point from this, besides the factors they identify, could be a consideration of America as an individualistic nation. Students could be given the questions located at the bottom of this page
Learn More The Sociology of Living Alone
as discussion points for a think, pair and share exercise. This Sociological Cinema material on ‘single and unequal’ also provides some good content:
Learn More Single and Unequal
More Resources from Discovering Sociology
A useful overview of the Functionalist view of youth culture can be found below:
youth-subcultures
Some Sociologists suggest that subcultures may no longer exist in the form that they once did. Fo...
youth-subcultures
Students should be able to draw on examples from a wide range of subcultures, both classic and...
youth-subcultures
The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) based at Birmingham University produced a ...
youth-subcultures
The class could investigate and consider the extent to which they consider the ‘haul girl&r...
youth-subcultures
Students could be asked to write a timeline of their lives as they anticipate them to be after...
youth-subcultures
The following Daily Mail article laments the adoption of Jamaican patois styles of language in...
youth-subcultures
David Starkey featured in a Newsnight discussion about the 2011 UK riots. This Guardian articl...
youth-subcultures
By way of starting off an investigation into youth subcultures, teachers could pose the proble...
youth-subcultures
We begin here by looking at ‘what is youth?’, and then the idea of youth-subcultures