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GNS 115 Introduction to Sociology

ND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences14 topics

GNS 115 covers 14 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Meaning, scope and methods of sociology
  2. Historical development of sociology
  3. Sociology and other social sciences
  4. Society and social groups
  5. Types of groups
  6. Reference groups
  7. Social institutions
  8. Functions and characteristics of social institutions
  9. Culture and its components
  10. Cultural norms, values, folkways and mores
  11. Socialization and agents of socialization
  12. Personality: nature and nurture
  13. Family as a basic social institution
  14. Types of family grouping

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Meaning, scope and methods of sociology

Sociology is the systematic study of society, its structures, and the patterns of human interaction. Mastering its meaning, scope, and research methods equips medical and health science students to analyse health behaviours, institutions and policies from a social perspective, a core requirement of the NUC CCMAS, NBTE and NCCE syllabi.

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