Sociology A Level

IN THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS STUDY:

• Culture, socialisation and identity: e.g. norms and values; types of culture; agents of socialisation and control; aspects of identity, such as, disability, ethnicity, gender and social class 
• Families and relationships: e.g. diversity of family and household types; sociological reasons for family diversity, demographic changes and trends in marriage, cohabitation and divorce; theoretical debates about the role and desirability of the nuclear family; debates about the extent of family diversity
• Research methods and understanding social inequalities: e.g. including validity, reliability, representativeness, generalisability, positivism and interpretivism; the main stages of the research process; sociological research methods
• Understanding social inequalities: social class, gender, ethnicity and age; sociological explanations, including functionalism, Marxism, Weberian, feminism, New Right

IN THE SECOND YEAR, STUDENTS STUDY ALL THE AS TOPICS PLUS:

• Globalisation and the digital social world: e.g. digital forms of communication and application of Marxism, feminism and postmodernism; its positive and negative impact on the social world
• Crime and Deviance: e.g. measuring crime; patterns and trends in crime; theoretical views; social policy and crime.

Please contact Mr Williams if you require further information.