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4.1 - Education with Theory and Methods (Paper 1)

4.1.1 - Education

4.1.1 - Functionalist Perspective on Education
4.1.1 - Marxist Perspective on Education
4.1.1 - Other Perspectives on Education
4.1.1 - Class Differences in Achievement — External Factors
4.1.1 - Class Differences in Achievement — Internal Factors
4.1.1 - Ethnic Differences in Achievement - External Factors
4.1.1 - Ethnic Differences in Achievement - Internal Factors
4.1.1 - Gender Differences in Achievement — External Factors
4.1.1 - Gender Differences in Achievement — Internal Factors
4.1.1 - Teacher-Pupil Relationships and Pupil Identities
4.1.1 - Pupil Subcultures
4.1.1 - The Hidden Curriculum and Organisation of Teaching
4.1.1 - Selection, Comprehensivisation and Marketisation
4.1.1 - Education policy - New Labour, coalition and equality
4.1.1 - Education policy - privatisation and globalisation

4.1.2 - Methods in Context

4.1.2 - Education research - experiments and questionnaires
4.1.2 - Education research - interviews and observation
4.1.2 - Education research - secondary sources

4.1.3 / 4.3.2 - Shared Theory and Methods

4.1.3 - Positivism and Sociology
4.1.3 - Interpretivism and Sociology
4.1.3 - Questionnaires
4.1.3 - Interviews
4.1.3 - Participant and Non-participant Observation
4.1.3 - Experiments
4.1.3 - Secondary Sources
4.1.3 - Research Design
4.1.3 - Choosing methods - theory, practicality and ethics
4.1.3 - Consensus Theory - Functionalism
4.1.3 - Conflict Theory — Marxism and Feminism
4.1.3 - Social Action Theory
4.1.3 - Modernity and Postmodernity in Sociological Theory
4.1.3 - Sociology and Science
4.1.3 - Objectivity, value freedom and social policy

4.2 - Topics in Sociology (Paper 2)

4.2.1 - Culture and Identity (Option 1)

4.2.1 - Conceptions of Culture
4.2.1 - Subcultures and Cultural Diversity
4.2.1 - Socialisation Process and Agencies of Socialisation
4.2.1 - The Self, Identity and Difference
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4.2.1 - Identity and Social Class
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4.2.1 - Identity and Gender
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4.2.1 - Identity and Ethnicity
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4.2.1 - Identity and Age, Disability, Sexuality, and Nationality
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4.2.1 - Identity, Consumption and Leisure
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4.2.1 - Identity, Production and Globalisation
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4.2.2 - Families and Households (Option 1)

4.2.2 - Functionalist and New Right Perspectives on the Family
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4.2.2 - Marxist and Feminist Perspectives on the Family
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4.2.2 - Postmodern and Personal Life Perspectives on the Family
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4.2.2 - Marriage, Cohabitation and Civil Partnerships
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4.2.2 - Changing Patterns of Separation, Divorce, and Remarriage
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4.2.2 - Family Diversity
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4.2.2 - The Life Course and Diversity of Household Structures
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4.2.2 - Gender Roles and Domestic Labour
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4.2.2 - Power Relationships within the Family
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4.2.2 - The Nature of Childhood
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4.2.2 - Changes in the Status of Children in Family and Society
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4.2.2 - Birth Rates, Death Rates and Family Size
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4.2.2 - Life Expectancy, Ageing, Migration and Globalisation
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4.2.3 - Health (Option 1)

4.2.3 - Health, illness, disability and the body
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4.2.3 - The Biomedical and Social Models of Health
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4.2.3 - Health Inequalities by Social Class
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4.2.3 - Health Inequalities by Gender
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4.2.3 - Health Inequalities by Ethnicity and Region
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4.2.3 - Inequalities in Provision of and Access to Health Care
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4.2.3 - The Nature and Social Distribution of Mental Illness
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4.2.3 - Social Construction and Models of Mental Illness
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4.2.3 - The Role of Medicine and the Health Professions
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4.2.3 - The Globalised Health Industry
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4.2.4 - Work, Poverty and Welfare (Option 1)

4.2.4 - Defining and Measuring Poverty
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4.2.4 - The Existence and Persistence of Poverty
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4.2.4 - Poverty, Wealth and Income Between Social Groups
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4.2.4 - Poverty Explanations - Individualistic and Cultural
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4.2.4 - Explanations of Poverty - Structural and Marxist Theories
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4.2.4 - The Welfare State — Models and the Role of the State
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4.2.4 - Private, Voluntary and Informal Welfare Provision
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4.2.4 - Responses and Solutions to Poverty — Welfare Reforms
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4.2.4 - Labour process - Fordism, post-Fordism and control
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4.2.4 - The Role of Technology, Skill, and De-skilling in Work
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4.2.4 - Work, Worklessness and Life Chances
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4.2.4 - Globalisation and Work
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4.2.5 - Beliefs in Society (Option 2)

4.2.5 - Ideology and Science
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4.2.5 - Religion as a Belief System - Functionalist Perspective
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4.2.5 - Religion — Marxist and Feminist Perspectives
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4.2.5 - Religion as a Conservative Force
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4.2.5 - Religion as a Force for Social Change
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4.2.5 - Religious Organisations - Churches and Denominations
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4.2.5 - Religious Organisations - Sects and Cults
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4.2.5 - New Religious Movements and New Age Movements
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4.2.5 - Religion and Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Age
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4.2.5 - Secularisation - Evidence and Arguments For
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4.2.5 - Secularisation - Arguments Against and Religious Revival
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4.2.5 - Globalisation and the Spread of Religions
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4.2.6 - Global Development (Option 2)

4.2.6 - Defining Development, Underdevelopment and Inequality
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4.2.6 - Modernisation Theory
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4.2.6 - Dependency Theory
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4.2.6 - World Systems Theory and Neo-liberalism
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4.2.6 - Globalisation - Cultural, Political and Economic
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4.2.6 - Transnational Corporations and Development
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4.2.6 - Non-governmental Organisations and International Agencies
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4.2.6 - Aid and Trade in Development
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4.2.6 - Industrialisation, Urbanisation, and the Environment
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4.2.6 - War, Conflict, and Development
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4.2.6 - Education, Employment and Health in Development
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4.2.6 - Gender, Demographic Change, and Development
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4.2.7 - The Media (Option 2)

4.2.7 - New Media and Digital Communications
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4.2.7 - The Impact of New Media on Society
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4.2.7 - Ownership and Control of the Media
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4.2.7 - Ownership and Control — Pluralist vs Marxist Perspectives
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4.2.7 - Media, Globalisation, and Popular Culture
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4.2.7 - News selection - values, agenda-setting and gatekeeping
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4.2.7 - News - bias, moral panics and citizen journalism
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4.2.7 - Media Representations of Social Class and Age
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4.2.7 - Media Representations of Ethnicity
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4.2.7 - Media Representations of Gender, Sexuality and Disability
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4.2.7 - Audiences - hypodermic syringe, uses and gratifications
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4.2.7 - Media content and audiences - reception and postmodernism
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4.2.8 - Stratification and Differentiation (Option 2)

4.2.8 - Stratification — Functionalist, Marxist and Weberian
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4.2.8 - Stratification - Feminist and Postmodernist Approaches
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4.2.8 - Dimensions of Inequality - Class, Status, and Power
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4.2.8 - Life Chances by Social Class
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4.2.8 - Life Chances by Gender
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4.2.8 - Life Chances by Ethnicity, Age, and Disability
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4.2.8 - Defining and Measuring Social Class
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4.2.8 - Gender and Social Class — Classification Issues
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4.2.8 - Upper class and transnational capitalists
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4.2.8 - Class structure - middle and working classes
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4.2.8 - Globalisation and Changes in the Class Structure
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4.2.8 - Social Mobility
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4.3 - Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods (Paper 3)

4.3.1 - Crime and Deviance

4.3.1 - Crime, Deviance, Social Order and Social Control
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4.3.1 - Functionalist Theories of Crime
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4.3.1 - Subcultural Theories of Crime
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4.3.1 - Marxist Theories of Crime
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4.3.1 - Interactionist - Labelling Theory of Crime
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4.3.1 - Realist Theories of Crime
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4.3.1 - Feminist Theories of Crime
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4.3.1 - Postmodern Perspectives on Crime
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4.3.1 - Crime and Ethnicity
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4.3.1 - Crime and Social Class
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4.3.1 - Crime and Locality
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4.3.1 - Globalisation and Crime
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4.3.1 - The Media and Crime
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4.3.1 - Green Crime, Human Rights, and State Crimes
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4.3.1 - Crime Control, Surveillance, and Prevention
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4.3.1 - Punishment, Victims and the Criminal Justice System
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4.3.1 / 4.3.2 - Crime, Theory and Methods applications

4.3.1 - Applying Theory to Crime
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4.3.2 - Researching crime - practical, ethical and theory issues
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4.3.2 - Crime, science, value freedom and social policy
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