Should I take

SOCIOLOGY ?A/AS Level

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?

Employers and Universities

The skills that are taught within the subject are very useful in work, study and life.

value Sociology.

Independent thinkers.

Open-minded.

Critical and thoughtful.

Able to pick out the essential from the trivial.

Organised and disciplined.

In this rapidly changing worldit is important people are:

Sociology Department

Specialist and Innovative

Experienced and Enthusiastic

Hard working and High Standards

Very good Estyn Report and Results

AQASociology

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.

Unit 1: Family and Households

Theories of the familyHistory of the familyFamily Diversity Gender rolesDivorceChildhood and old ageSocial Policy

Do all children have the same experience during childhood?

Unit 2: Sociology of Education

TheoriesIn school studies.History of, social policy.Social ClassGenderEthnicity

What is cultural capital?

Unit 2: Methods.

Positivists v InterpretivistsSampling and the research process.Quantitative methods.Qualitative methods.Secondary sources.

Unit 3: Political Sociology

Political parties, ideology.Voting behaviourMass MediaTheories of the State and PowerPressure groups, NSMsGlobalisation

Unit 4: Theories and Methods

AS Methods and Science and objectivitySocial PolicyStructuralistsInterpretivistsPostmodernism.

Unit 4: Crime and Deviance Defining crime and deviance Theories Crime statistics Mass Media.

Class, gender and ethnicity

Conclusion

• Sociology is lifelong…and all around you….

• Values and uses• Department and lessons• Course content