A-Level Sociology

Course summary

Sociology is the scientific study of societies across the world and the people within them. Sociology is a subject that relates to the lives of everyone and aims to have its students thinking in a whole new way. The course will introduce you to four different subject areas, relevant to your personal life and have you think about them in a completely different way that you will hopefully find fascinating. These subject areas include the family and education in the first year, followed by crime, deviance and the media in the second year. We shall look at how these different areas shape our behaviour and whether there are underlying and hidden functions of them. You will study the AQA syllabus and look at different topic areas in Sociology which provide a broad understanding of the ways in which sociologists approach the notion of how societies influence our behaviour. The Sociology A’ Level is ‘reformed’ and as such, the entire grade is based upon the examinations at the end of Year 13. Students will sit an examination at the end of Year 12 but this will not contribute to the overall grade.