Sociology

Assessment

Year 12 At this level, candidates will acquire knowledge of contemporary social processes and social changes. Candidates will be encouraged to develop their own social awareness through active engagement with the contemporary social world. TOPICS AT YEAR 12 • Core themes in Sociology (1. Socialisation, culture and identity, 2. Differentiation, power, and status) • Education with research methods (the structure and organisation of the education system, patterns in achievement by class, gender and ethnicity, the impact of educational policies, • Research Methods: methods of studying society and debates about methodology • Families and Households (changes to family structure in Britain, demographic differences in families, patterns in marriage and divorce, social policy and family life, power in the family) ASSESSMENT: Internal TOPICS AT YEAR 13 • Beliefs in Society (the significance of religion and religiosity in the contemporary world, including the nature and extent of secularisation in a global context, and globalisation and the spread of religions.) • Crime and deviance with research methods (the social distribution of crime and deviance, contemporary crime, criminal justice systems, patterns in suicide, approaches to sociology, sociology as a science, value freedom, sociology and social policy) ASSESSMENT – all in summer 2017 • Exam 1 – Education with theory and methods (2 hours, 33% of the A Level) • Exam 2 – Topics in Sociology – Families and Households, and Mass Media (2 hours, 33% of the A Level) • Exam 3 – Crime and deviance with theory and methods (2 hours, 33% of the A Level)