We encourage students to go beyond their immediate experience and use evidence from research and theory to help explain the individual and society. Sociology creates critical thinkers. The ability to analyse and evaluate our own views and those of others in the light of evidence is an essential skill; we give students the confidence and the skills to be able to do this.
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Year 12 |
Year 13 |
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What is sociology? - -BASICS OF SOCIOLOGY – An Introduction
Families and Households
Family diversity
Theory and the family
Education
The Role of Education – Functionalist, Marxist, New Right and Feminism
Educational Underachievement - Class
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Crime and Deviance
Theories of crime
Measuring crime – Ethnicity, gender and class.
The Media
What is the Media, and how has it changed?
The relationship between ownership and control of the media (Theories on the Media – Marxist, Neo – Marxist and Pluralism)
The selection and presentation of the news
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Media Representation of Gender and Ethnicity |
| Term 2 |
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Families and Households
Changes in the family structure – the division of labour, gender roles
Childhood
Education
Educational Underachevement – Gender
Educational Underachievement – Ethnicity
Changes to Educational Policy
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Crime and Deviance
Globalisation and crime – Media, state crime, green crime
Crime prevention and punishment
The Media
Media Representation of age, social class, sexuality and disability
The relationship between the media, their content and presentation, and audiences.
The new media and their significance for an understanding of the role of the media in contemporary society
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Trials |
Trials |
| Term 3 |
Demography
Methods
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Theory and Methods
The media, globalisation and popular culture
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Assessment week / resit trials |
Resit Trials |
Useful Websites
https://hecticteachersalevelsociologysite.wordpress.com/
https://revisesociology.com/
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/sociology/as-and-a-level/sociology-7191-7192/assessment-resources
