Culture and Identity

Overview

Framework:
Access to HE
Level:
Level 3
Unit No:
Not available
Credits:
3
Guided learning hours:
Not available

Qualification Grading Type

Graded

Grade Descriptors

  • GD1-Understanding the subject
  • GD2-Application of knowledge
  • GD7-Quality

Unit Learning Outcomes

1

Understand concepts of culture, sub culture and mass culture.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1
    Analyse the concepts of culture, sub culture and mass culture.
  • 1.2

    Analyse the concepts of high and low culture.

2

Understand the significance of age, class, gender and ethnicity in relation to the acquisition of cultural norms and values.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1
    Examine the inter-relationship between identity, socialisation and culture.
  • 2.2
    Analyse the concepts of norms and roles in sociological explanations.
  • 2.3
    Analyse the main agencies of social influence in the development of identity and culture.
3

Understand how the production and consumption of cultural products influences the values attached to them.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1
    Analyse the link between culture and identity in a modern society.
  • 3.2
    Analyse the ways in which the media and leisure industries influence cultural identity.