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Should You Take A/AS Level Sociology? Key Considerations and Course Overview

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Deciding whether to take A/AS Level Sociology? Consider three key areas: the value of sociology to employers and universities, how studying sociology can impact you personally, and whether you will enjoy the course content. Sociology equips you with essential skills like critical thinking, open-mindedness, and organization, all valuable in various life aspects. The course covers topics like family dynamics, education, political sociology, and crime, encouraging thoughtful engagement with critical social issues. Dive into a subject that remains relevant and impactful throughout your life.

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  1. Should I take A/AS Level SOCIOLOGY ?

  2. Three areas to consider before I make my decision about sociology: Do employers/universities value sociology? 1 2 What can studying sociology do for me as a person? 3 Will I enjoy the content of the course?

  3. Employers and Universities value Sociology. The skills that are taught within the subject are very useful in work, study and life.

  4. In this rapidly changing world it is important people are: • Independent thinkers. • Open-minded. • Critical and thoughtful. • Able to pick out the essential from the trivial. • Organised and disciplined.

  5. Sociology Department Specialist and Innovative Experienced and Enthusiastic Hard working and High Standards Very good Estyn Report and Results

  6. AQA Sociology A/AS LEVEL 1. Family and Households. 2. Education and Methods. 3 Political Sociology. 4. Theories and Methods/Crime and Deviance. Units 1 and 2 are studied in Year 12. Units 3 and 4 are studied in Year 13.

  7. Unit 1: Family and Households • Theories of the family • History of the family • Family Diversity • Gender roles • Divorce • Childhood and old age • Social Policy

  8. Do all children have the same experience during childhood?

  9. Unit 2: Sociology of Education • Theories • In school studies. • History of, social policy. • Social Class • Gender • Ethnicity

  10. What is cultural capital?

  11. Unit 2: Methods. • Positivists v Interpretivists • Sampling and the research process. • Quantitative methods. • Qualitative methods. • Secondary sources.

  12. Unit 3: Political Sociology • Political parties, ideology. • Voting behaviour • Mass Media • Theories of the State and Power • Pressure groups, NSMs • Globalisation

  13. Unit 4: Theories and Methods • AS Methods and • Science and objectivity • Social Policy • Structuralists • Interpretivists • Postmodernism.

  14. Unit 4: Crime and Deviance • Defining crime and deviance • Theories • Crime statistics • Mass Media. • Class, gender and ethnicity

  15. Conclusion • Sociology is lifelong…and all around you…. • Values and uses • Department and lessons • Course content