At A-Level, candidates will focus on contemporary society and they should demonstrate a wide range and great depth of knowledge and understanding and highly developed skills of application, analysis, interpretation and evaluation. Over the two years you will have developed a very strong and balanced knowledge-base on the subject of sociology. A good sociology student will need more than a passionate concern for issues of injustice and inequality. You will need to be equally passionate about understanding how society works: its structure, the mechanisms of its processes of change, the unnoticed, taken-for-granted but binding rules which govern the everyday behaviour of people in everyday situations - in the office, factory, supermarket, family home or classroom. Why do people act the way they do? Why is it ‘correct’ that teachers can tell students what to do whilst they are in the classroom but not if they saw them in town on a Saturday?
Students will need to have at least five GCSEs at Grade 4 or above including English Language and Mathematics at Level 4. To enable students to select the most appropriate subjects at A-Level we use a system based on their APS (average point score) from their GCSE results. Add together your 8 highest GCSE's and then divide by 8 to give your APS. We advise students to choose the subjects which best fit their APS.
The A-Level specification has three units and all are assessed by a two hour written paper each worth 80 marks or 33.3% of the A-Level. Unit 1: Education with Theory and Methods Unit 2: Topics in Sociology Option 1: Culture and Identity; Families and Household; Health; Work, Poverty and Welfare. Option 2: Beliefs in Society; Global Development; The Media; Stratification and Differentiation. Unit 3: Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods
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| Region | South East |
| Local Authority | Oxfordshire |
| Ofsted Rating | Good |
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| Address | Arnolds Way, Oxford, OX2 9JE |
At A-Level, candidates will focus on contemporary society and they should demonstrate a wide range and great depth of knowledge and understanding and highly developed skills of application, analysis, interpretation and evaluation. Over the two years you will have developed a very strong and balanced knowledge-base on the subject of sociology. A good sociology student will need more than a passionate concern for issues of injustice and inequality. You will need to be equally passionate about understanding how society works: its structure, the mechanisms of its processes of change, the unnoticed, taken-for-granted but binding rules which govern the everyday behaviour of people in everyday situations - in the office, factory, supermarket, family home or classroom. Why do people act the way they do? Why is it ‘correct’ that teachers can tell students what to do whilst they are in the classroom but not if they saw them in town on a Saturday?
Students will need to have at least five GCSEs at Grade 4 or above including English Language and Mathematics at Level 4. To enable students to select the most appropriate subjects at A-Level we use a system based on their APS (average point score) from their GCSE results. Add together your 8 highest GCSE's and then divide by 8 to give your APS. We advise students to choose the subjects which best fit their APS.
The A-Level specification has three units and all are assessed by a two hour written paper each worth 80 marks or 33.3% of the A-Level. Unit 1: Education with Theory and Methods Unit 2: Topics in Sociology Option 1: Culture and Identity; Families and Household; Health; Work, Poverty and Welfare. Option 2: Beliefs in Society; Global Development; The Media; Stratification and Differentiation. Unit 3: Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods