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Topics All Education All Theory and Methods All Culture and Identity All Families and Households All Health All Work, Poverty and Welfare All Beliefs in Society All Global Development All The Media All Stratification and Differentiation All Crime and Deviance Clear
Education: Role and functions of education (functionalist, Marxist, New Right) (22) class, gender and ethnicity (47) labelling, subcultures and the hidden curriculum (29) Educational policy, marketisation and globalisation (26) research methods applied to education (19)
Theory and Methods: Quantitative and qualitative methods and research design (11) questionnaires, interviews, observation, experiments, documents and official statistics (40) Primary and secondary data, quantitative and qualitative data (11) Positivism, interpretivism and social facts (18) Theoretical, practical and ethical issues in research (28) Consensus, conflict, structural and social action theories (7) Modernity and postmodernity (3) Is sociology a science? (3) Theory and methods, value freedom and social policy (5)
Culture and Identity: subculture, mass, folk, high, popular and global culture (18) Socialisation and the agencies of socialisation (20) Self, identity and difference (18) Identity and age, disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, sexuality and class (38) Identity, production, consumption and globalisation (21)
Families and Households: The family, social structure, the economy and state policies (19) Marriage, divorce, cohabitation and family diversity (35) Gender roles, domestic labour and power in the family (18) Childhood and the changing status of children (16) birth rates, death rates, ageing and migration (20)
Health: The social construction of health, illness, disability and the body (19) Health inequalities by class, gender, ethnicity and region (24) Inequalities in the provision of and access to health care (19) Mental illness (15) Medicine, the health professions and the globalised health industry (20)
Work, Poverty and Welfare: The nature, existence and persistence of poverty (26) The distribution of poverty, wealth and income (22) the state and welfare providers (20) division of labour, technology and deskilling (15) Work, worklessness and life chances (24)
Beliefs in Society: Ideology, science and religion (8) Religion, social change and social stability (10) churches, sects, cults and New Age movements (7) gender, ethnicity, age and class (7) Secularisation and the global spread of religion (15)
Global Development: Development, underdevelopment and global inequality (modernisation and dependency theory) (10) Globalisation and development (7) Transnational corporations, NGOs and international agencies (7) Aid, trade, industrialisation, urbanisation, environment and war (12) Employment, education, health, demography and gender in development (13)
The Media: The new media (9) Ownership and control of the media (10) The media, globalisation and popular culture (6) Selection and presentation of the news (7) Media representations of age, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability (9) The media and audiences (9)
Stratification and Differentiation: Stratification and differentiation by class, gender, ethnicity and age (15) Class, status, power and life chances (16) Defining and measuring social class (5) Changing structures of inequality and the transnational capitalist class (7) Social mobility (8)
Crime and Deviance: Crime, deviance, social order and social control (13) Crime by ethnicity, gender and social class (15) Globalisation, the media, green crime and state crime (8) Crime control, surveillance, punishment and victims (14)
Question type Any Short answers (2–6 marks) Outline and explain (10) Item questions (10) Methods in Context (20) Essays (16–30)
Level Both AS only A level only
How many 5 10 20
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