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Sociology
Curriculum Details - 2022/2023 (Current)
| Year | Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 | Term 4 | Term 5 | Term 6 |
| 12 | Families and Households: Theories, social change and state policy. Gender roles, domestic labour and power relations in the family. Childhood and changing status of children. | F&H: Changing patterns of marriage. Personal life and diversity of families and households. Demographic trends since 1900. Migration and globalisation. Education and training: Sociological theories about the role and function of education. Differential achievement by class, gender and ethnicity. | Education continued: Relationships and processes in schools: labelling, setting, subcultures, hidden curriculum. Educational polices and globalisation. | Methods of research: primary and secondary, practical, ethical and theoretical issues that influence topic and method. Theory of research: positivism and interpretivism. | Is sociology a science? | Sociological theories-not linked to topics: Consensus and Control theories, Social Action Theories, Postmodernism and Late Modernism. |
| 13 | Beliefs in society: ideology, science and religion. Social change and religion. Different types of religious organisations. Secularistion debate. | Beliefs continued: the relationship between different social groups and religion. Begin Crime and Deviance: theories-crime, deviance and social order. | The distribution of crime and deviance by ethnicity, social class and gender. Crime control, surveillance, prevention and punishment, victims and the role of the criminal justice system. | Globalisation and crime in contemporary society; the media and crime, green crime and human rights and state crime. Begin revision. | Revision. | External exams |