Curriculum Information
Year 12 Sociology 2018/2019
| Course title: Sociology A Level | Exam board: AQA | Specification code: 7191 7192 |
| How will students be assessed? | ||
| Students will sit three external exams at the end of Year 13
Paper 1: Education with Theory and Methods. All exams are 2 hours in length and worth 33.3% of the A level marks |
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| Half term | Key content |
| 1 (8 weeks) | Families and Households Unit (Assessed on Paper 2)
Topic 1: Marriage, divorce and cohabitation (trends, causes and sociological theoretical views) Topic 2: Family Diversity (trends, causes and sociological theoretical views) Topic 3: Functions of the family (Theories such as Functionalism, Marxism, Feminism and Individualism thesis) Topic 4: Social Policy (Example of laws, impact on family structures and theoretical perspectives) Topic 5: Division of domestic labour (March of progress vs. conflict perspective) Topic 6: Childhood (Social construction, western notion, globalisation, future of childhood) |
| 2 (7 weeks) | Families and Households Unit (Assessed on Paper 2)
Topic 7: Demography (Birth rates, death rates, emigration) Consolidation of families and households topic Methods Unit (Assessed on Paper 1 and Paper 2) Methods Interpretivist vs. Positivist methodology Factors impacting choice of method Sampling PERVERT for different sociological methods such as Participant observation, interviews, statistics, documents, questionnaires and experiments |
| 3 (6 weeks) | Consolidation of Methods
Education, Theory and Methods Unit (Assessed on Paper 1) Topic 1: Theories of Education Topic 2: Class differences in Education. Internal vs. External factors Topic 3: Gender differences in Education. Internal vs. External factors Topic 4: Ethnic differences in Education. Internal vs. External factors Topic 5: Social Policy Topic 6: Methods in Context |
| 4 (6 weeks) | |
| 5 (5 weeks) | |
| 6 (7 weeks) | Sociological Theory (Assessed on Paper 1 and 3)
Topics covered: Consensus, conflict, structural and social action theories Subjectivity, objectivity and value freedom Relationship between Sociology and Social Policy The nature of science and the extent to which Sociology can be regarded as scientific |
Year 13 Sociology 2018/2019
| Course title: Sociology A Level | Exam board: AQA | Specification code: 7191 7192 |
| How will students be assessed? | ||
| Students will sit three external exams at the end of Year 13
Paper 1: Education with Theory and Methods. All exams are 2 hours in length and worth 33.3% of the A level marks |
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| Half term | Key Content: Crime and Deviance Unit (Assessed on Paper 3) | Key Content: Beliefs Unit (Assessed on Paper 2) |
| 1 (8 weeks) | Theories of Crime and Deviance: Functionalism, Subcultural, Marxism, Interactionist, Left and Right Realism | Introduction to Sociology of Religion
What is Religion? Definitions Theories of Religion: Functionalism Theories of Religion: Marxism Theories of Religion: Feminism |
| 2 (7 weeks) | Gender and Crime: Trends and Sociological explanations
Ethnicity and crime: Trends and Sociological explanations Crime and the Media |
Religious Institutions
Religious Participation Religion as a conservative force Religion as a force for change |
| 3 (6 weeks) | Globalisation, Green crime, State Crime and Human Rights
Control, punishment and victims Crime and Deviance re-cap |
Secularisation: Possible causes
Secularisation: Trends and Patterns Secularisation: Weber and Bruce Secularisation: The USA Secularisation: The Spiritual Revolution |
| 4 (6 weeks) | Revision and Exam Practise
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Science and Ideology
Religion in a global context Postmodernity |
| 5 (5 weeks) | Revision and Exam Practise | Revision and Exam Practise |