Sociology A Level AQA for Year 13

Sociology A Level AQA for Year 13

Easter Revision Course Dates

• Week 1: 30 March – 3 April
• Week 2: 6 April – 10 April
• Week 3: 13 April – 17 April

(Good Friday is 3 April; Easter Monday is 6 April)

Boards

AQA 7192

Length of Course

5 full-day sessions

This course board-specific for the AQA specification (7192). This course is for A level Year 13 students only. This course is not suitable for Year 12 students. Please note the AQA specification requires students to study four compulsory topics for Paper 1 and Paper 3.

Compulsory Topics
Monday 9am – 5pm | Education
Education: The role and functions of the education system, including its relationship to the economy and to class structure. Differential educational achievement of social groups by social class, gender, and ethnicity in contemporary society. Education: Relationships and processes within schools, regarding teacher/pupil relationships, pupil identities and subcultures, the hidden curriculum, and the organisation of teaching and learning. The significance of educational policies, including policies of selection, marketisation and privatisation, and policies to achieve greater equality of opportunity or outcome, for an understanding of the structure, role, impact, and experience of and access to education; the impact of globalisation on educational policy.

Tuesday 9am – 5pm | Crime & Deviance
Crime: Crime, deviance, social order, and social control. The social distribution of crime and deviance by ethnicity, gender and social class, including recent patterns and
trends in crime. Crime: Globalisation and crime in contemporary society; the media and crime; green crime; human rights and state crimes. Crime control, surveillance, prevention and punishment, victims, and the role of the criminal justice system and other agencies.

Wednesday 9am – 5pm | Theory and methods
Theory: Consensus, conflict, structural and social action theories, the concepts of modernity and post-modernity in relation to sociological theory. The nature of science and the extent to which Sociology can be regarded as scientific. The relationship between theory and methods. Debates about subjectivity, objectivity and value freedom the relationship between Sociology and social policy.

Sociological Research Methods:

Quantitative and Qualitative methods of research; research design sources of data, including questionnaires, interviews, participant and non-participant observation, experiments, documents and official statistics. The distinction between primary and secondary data, and between quantitative and qualitative data. Sociological Research Methods: The relationship between positivism, interpretivism and sociological methods; the nature of ‘social facts. The theoretical, practical and ethical considerations influencing choice of topic, choice of method(s) and the conduct of research

Optional topics

Thursday 9am – 5pm | Family
Families and Households: The relationship of the family to the social structure and social change, with particular reference to the economy and to state policies. Changing patterns of marriage, cohabitation, separation, divorce, childbearing, and the life course, including the sociology of personal life, and the diversity of contemporary family and
household structures. Gender roles, domestic labour, and power relationships within the family in contemporary society. The nature of childhood, and changes in the status of children in the family and society. Demographic trends in the United Kingdom since 1900: birth rates, death rates, family size, life expectancy, ageing population, and migration and globalisation.

Or

Culture and Identity different conceptions of culture, including subculture, mass culture, folk culture, high and low culture, popular culture, and global culture the socialisation process and the role of the agencies of socialisation the self, identity, and difference as both socially caused and socially constructed the relationship of identity to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, sexuality, and social class in contemporary society the relationship of identity to production, consumption, and globalisation.

Friday 9am – 5pm | Media
Media: The new media and their significance for an understanding of the role of the media in contemporary society. The relationship between ownership and control of the media. The media, globalisation, and popular culture. The processes of selection and presentation of the content of the news. Media representations of age, social class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability. The relationship between the media, their content and presentation, and audiences.

Or

Beliefs
Beliefs: The relationship between different social groups and religious/ spiritual organisations and movements, beliefs, and practices. The significance of religion and religiosity in the contemporary world, including the nature and extent of secularisation in a global context, and globalisation and the spread of religions.

Please contact the Easter Revision Team to discuss your precise requirements.