Students with A level in Sociology have access to a wide range of possible careers. The nature of this subject makes the student an ideal candidate at all levels of communication, working with others and improving their own methods of leaning.
This course will appeal to those students who: take an interest in people and have an interest in the society in which they live; enjoy discussing and reflecting upon their own lives; would like to do a subject which offers varied career opportunities.
Units of Study:
Education - role and functions of the education system; differential achievement of social groups bu social class gender and ethnicity; relationships and processes within schools; the significance of educational policies and policies to achieve greater equality of opportunity or outcome.
Families and Households - the relationship of the family to the social structure and social change; changing patterns of marriage, cohabitation, separation, divorce, childbearing and the life course; gender roles; the nature of childhood and changes in the status of children; demographic trends in the United Kingdom since 1900.
Beliefs in Society - Ideology, science and religion, relationship between social change and social stability; religious organisations, relationships between different social groups. significance of religion in the contemporary world.
Theory and Methods - Quantitative and qualitative methods of research, relationship between positivism, interpretivism and sociological methods, relationship between theory and methods.
Crime and Deviance - crime, deviance, social order and social control, social distribution of crime and deviance by ethnicity, gender and social class;, globalisation and crime, 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