Sociology

Course summary

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?