Year 10 - Sociology
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Introduction to Sociological Perspectives. Families - perspectives on families, changing patterns of marriage, divorce and conjugal roles and changing patterns of childhood. |
| Spring |
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| Education - perspectives on the role of education, differences in achievement including ethnicity, social class and gender differences and educational policies. |
| Summer |
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| Crime and Deviance - introduction including perspectives on crime. |
Year 11 - Sociology
| Autumn |
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| Crime and deviance - strain theory, subcultural and marxist explanations of crime. |
| Spring |
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| Social Stratification - perspectives on stratification, life chances, poverty and power. Revision and exam practice of all topics. |
| Summer |
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| Revision and exam practice of all topics. |
Year 12 - Sociology
| Autumn |
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Introduction to perspectives in Sociology. Families - changing patterns including divorce, marriage cohabitation, changes in gender roles, demography. Education - perspectives on roles of education, differences in achievement including social class, gender and ethnicity, education and gender and sexual identities and educational policies. |
| Spring |
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Education in context - research methods and their effectiveness when used in education including observations, experiments, interviews, official statistics and questionnaires. Crime and deviance - perspectives and explanations for crime, patterns of crime including in relation to social class, ethnicity and gender. |
| Summer |
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| Crime - the role of the criminal justice system, crime control and punishment. The media and globalisation in relation to crime. Revision of Education, Families, Methods in Context. |
All Year 12 subjects Next Year 12 Subject - Government and Politics
Year 13 - Sociology
| Autumn |
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Crime and deviance with research methods including interviews, observations, questionnaires and official statistics. Beliefs in Society - Science and religion, changing patterns of religious beliefs and practices. |
| Spring |
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| Beliefs in Society - the relationship between social groups and religion, religious beliefs and globalisation, secularisation and the spread of different religions. |
| Summer |
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| Revision of all topics and exam practice |
All Year 13 subjects Next Year 13 Subject - Government and Politics