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For A Level Sociology, students follow the specification from AQA.
Over the duration of the course students complete units;
Education
- Different attainment of working and middle class students
- Different attainment of students from ethnic minority backgrounds
- Different attainment of girls and boys
- Sociological perspectives with regard to education
- Education and Government policy
Families and Households
- How the family adapts to social structure and social change in relation to the economy and state policy
- Patterns relating to marriage, co-habitation, divorce and children
- Gender roles within marriage
- Childhood and it’s changing nature
- Demographic trends in the UK since 1900
Beliefs in Society
- Theories of religion
- Religion and social change
- Secularism
- New religious movements
- Religion around the world
- Religion and science
Crime
- Sociological perspectives on crime
- The relationship between class, power and crime
- Patterns of crime with regards to gender and ethnicity
- Crime in the media
- Global, green, state crime and human rights
- Control, punishment and victims
Theories and Methods
- Quantitive and qualitative methods
- The relationship between sociology and science including objectivity and values
- Sociological perspectives from functionalism, Marxism, feminism and action theories
- Sociology and globalism and post-modernity
- Sociology and social policy
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