Year 12
| 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. Paper 2: Topics in Sociology (Families and Households and Beliefs in Society) Paper 3: Crime and Deviance 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 – Teacher 1 (NMS) | Key content – Teacher 2 (DR) |
| 1 (7 weeks)
Monday 5th Sept-Friday 22nd October |
Families and Households Unit
Topic 1: Marriage, divorce and cohabitation (trends, causes and sociological theoretical views) Topic 2: Family Diversity (trends, causes and sociological theoretical views) 17th October data Year 12 collection (CWA,PEG and ATL |
Education Unit
Topic 1:Class differences in educational achievement (external factors-cultural deprivation, subculture, parental attitudes etc) Topic 2:Class differences in Achievement (internal factors- setting , streaming , labelling sfp etc) 17th October data Year 12 collection (CWA,PEG and ATL |
| 2 (7 weeks)
Monday 31st October-Friday |
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) 9th January data collection (CWA, PEG and ATL) |
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Topic 3 – Role of educational in society (marxism , functionalism , new right views)9th January data collection (CWA, PEG and ATL) |
| 3 (7 weeks)
Tuesday 3rd January- Friday 17th February |
Topic 5: Division of domestic labour (March of progress vs. conflict perspective)
Topic 6: Childhood (Social construction, western notion, globalisation, future of childhood) Mock Exams 1: Tuesday 31st Jan-Friday 3rd Feb |
Topic 4- (Christmas independent study)
Ethnic differences in achievement (external and internal factors including cultural and material deprivation, institutional racism, ethnocentric curriculum ) Mock Exams 1: Tuesday 31st Jan-Friday 3rd Feb |
| 4 (6 weeks)
Monday 27th Feb-Friday 7th April |
Topic 7: Demography (Birth rates, death rates, emigration)
Year 12 Data Drop: 27th February (Mock Exam Results) Year 12 Parents’ Evening: 16th March Theory and methods unit Interpretivist vs. Positivist Factors impacting choice of method Sampling PET for different sociological methods such as Participant observation, interviews, statistics, documents, questionnaires and experiments Methods in context: Education Mock Exams 2: Monday 15th May-Friday 19th May Data Drop/Year 12 Reports begin Monday 3rd July – Mock Exam grade 2 to be entered here. |
Topic 5 – Gender differences in education (internal and external factors, boys v girls, gender and subject choice,etc)
Year 12 Data Drop: 27th February (Mock Exam Results) Year 12 Parents’ Evening: 16th March |
| 5 (5 weeks)
Monday 24th April – Friday 26th May) |
Topic 6- Education and social policy (from 1944 – tripartite, comprehensives, marketisation, parentocracy, privatisation, policies to address gender, class, and ethnicity.) | |
| 6 (7 weeks)
Monday 5th June-Friday 21st July |
Catch up or /and revision of all topics |
Year 13
| 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. Paper 2: Topics in Sociology (Families and Households and Beliefs in Society) Paper 3: Crime and Deviance 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 – Teacher 1 (MS) | Key content – Teacher 2 (SLW) |
| 1 (7 weeks)
Monday 5th Sept-Friday 22nd October |
Crime and Deviance Unit
Class differences inc Marxism Realist Theories: Left and Right Gender and Crime: Trends and Sociological explanations |
Beliefs in Society Unit
Introduction to Sociology of Religion What is Religion? Definitions Theories of Religion: Functionalism Theories of Religion: Marxism Theories of Religion: Feminism |
| 2 (7 weeks)
Monday 31st October-Friday |
Ethnicity and crime: Trends and Sociological explanations
Crime and the Media Globalisation, Green crime, State Crime and Human Rights Control, punishment and victims |
Religious Institutions
Religious Participation Religion as a conservative force Religion as a force for change |
| 3 (7 weeks)
Tuesday 3rd January- Friday 17th February |
Theory and Methods Unit
Re-cap of Year 12 Methods Interpretivism vs. Positivism Consensus, conflict, structural and social action theories |
Secularisation: Possible causes
Secularisation: Trends and Patterns Secularisation: Weber and Bruce Secularisation: The USA Secularisation: The Spiritual Revolution |
| 4 (6 weeks)
Monday 27th Feb-Friday 7th April |
Theory and Methods continued
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 Revision and Exam Practise for Paper 1, 2 and 3 |
Science and Ideology
Religion in a global context Postmodernity |
| 5 (5 weeks)
Monday 24th April – Friday 26th May) |
Revision and Exam Practise |