Sociology

 

Education

Part 1 – Roles and Functions of Education:

• Functionalist Overview on Education

• Marxists Overview on Education Schools

Part 2 – Difference in Educational Achievement:

• Difference due to Class (Internal Factors) 

• Difference due to Class (External Factors) 

• Difference due to Gender (Internal Factors) 

• Difference due to Gender (External Factors) 

• Girls and Identity

• Boys and Educational Achievement

• Ethnicity (External Factors) 

• Ethnicity (Internal Factors) 

Part 3 – Educational Policies:

• Equality within Education

• Marketisation of Education

• Private Education

 

Families and Households

Part 1 – Couples:

• The Domestic Division of Labour

• Equality within Couples

• Resources and Decisions-Making in Households

• Domestic Violence

Part 2 – Childhood:

• Childhood as a Social Construct

• The Future of Childhood

• The Position of Childhood

Part 3 – Theories of the Family:

• The Functionalist Perspective on the Family

• The Marxist Perspective on the Family

• Feminist Perspective on Education

• The Personal Life Perspective on Families

Part 4 – Demography:

• Births

• Deaths

• The Ageing Population

• Migration

• Globalisation and Migration

Part 5 – Changing Family Patterns:

• Divorce

• Partnerships

• Parents and Children

• Ethnic Differences in Family Patterns

• The Extended Family Today

Part 6 – Family Diversity:

• Modernism and the Nuclear Family

• Postmodernism and Family Diversity

Part 7 – Families and Social Policy:

• A Comparative View of Family Policy

• Perspectives on Families and Social Policy

 

Crime and Deviance

Part 1 – Theories of Crime and Deviance:

• Functionalism, Strain and Subcultural Theories.

• Labelling Theory

• Marxist and Critical Criminologies

• Realist Theories of Crime

• Statistics and Patterns of Crime

Part 2 – Differences and Crime:

• Ethnicity and Crime

• Gender and Crime

• Social Class and Crime

Part 3 – External Factors and Crime:

• Globalisation, Human Rights, State and Green Crime

• Crime and the Media

• Control, Prevention and Punishment; Victims; the Criminal System

 

The Media

• The New Media

• Ownership and Control of the Media

• The Media, Globalisation and Popular Culture

• The Selection and Presentation of the News

• Media Representations of Gender, Sexuality and Disability

• Media Representation of Ethnicity, Social Class and Age

• The Relationship between the Media and their Content, Presentation and Audience 

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Below you can find a PDF version of the contents as well as the AQA A-Level Sociology Specification.