Year 12 -Sociology 2017/2018
| 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 (FWA) | Key content – Teacher 2 (DR) |
| 1 (7 weeks)
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Methods
Interpretivist vs. Positivist Factors impacting choice of method Sampling PET for different sociological methods such as Participant observation, interviews, statistics, documents, questionnaires and experiments 16 October data collection (CWA,PEG and ATL) |
Introduction to key sociological concepts |
| 2 (8 weeks)
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Topic 1: Marriage, divorce and cohabitation (trends, causes and sociological theoretical views)
Topic 2: Family Diversity (trends, causes and sociological theoretical views) |
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) Links to Methods in Context |
| 3 (5 weeks)
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Topic 3: Functions of the family (Theories such as Functionalism, Marxism, Feminism and Individualism thesis)
1 Feb Mock Exams |
Topic 3 – Role of educational in society
(Marxism , Functionalism , New Right views) Links to Methods in Context |
| 4 (6 weeks)
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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) 26 Feb data collection (CWA, PEG and ATL) 6 March Parents’ Evening |
Topic 4 – Ethnic differences in achievement (external and internal factors including cultural and material deprivation, institutional racism, ethnocentric curriculum )
Links to Methods in Context
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| 5 (6 weeks)
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Topic 6: Childhood (Social construction, western notion, globalisation, future of childhood)
Topic 7: Demography (Birth rates, death rates, emigration) |
Topic 5 – Gender differences in education (internal and external factors, boys v girls, gender and subject choice,etc)
Links to Methods in Context |
| 6 (7 weeks)
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Consolidation of families and households topic
Introduction to crime and deviance module 11 June Reports Open 27 June – 3 July Exam Week 9 July data collection (CWA, PEG and ATL) |
Topic 6- Education and social policy (from 1944 – tripartite, comprehensives, marketisation, parentocracy, privatisation, policies to address gender, class, and ethnicity.)
Links to Methods in Context
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Year 13 Sociology 2017/18
| 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 (FWA) | Key content – Teacher 2 (SLW) |
| 1 (7 weeks)
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Crime and Deviance Unit
Class differences inc Marxism Realist Theories: Left and Right Gender and Crime: Trends and Sociological explanations 18 September UCAS Data Drop 9 October- Reports open 16 October data collection (CWA,PEG and ATL) |
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 (8 weeks)
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Ethnicity and crime: Trends and Sociological explanations
Globalisation, Green crime, State Crime and Human Rights Crime and the Media Control, punishment and victims 12 December Parents’ Evening |
Religious Institutions
Religious Participation Religion as a conservative force Religion as a force for change
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| 3 (5 weeks)
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Theory and Methods Unit
Re-cap of Year 12 Methods Interpretivism vs. Positivism Consensus, conflict, structural and social action theories 1 Feb- 5 Feb Mock exams |
Secularisation: Possible causes
Secularisation: Trends and Patterns Secularisation: Weber and Bruce Secularisation: The USA Secularisation: The Spiritual Revolution
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| 4 (6 weeks)
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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 26 Feb data collection (CWA, PEG and ATL) 23 April data collection (CWA, PEG and ATL) |
Science and Ideology
Religion in a global context Postmodernity
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| 5 (6 weeks)
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Revision and Exam Practise
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