Roadmap
Paper 1: Education with Theory and Methods
3.1.1 Education
1.1.1 - Functionalist Perspective on Education
1.1.2 - Marxist Perspective on Education
1.1.3 - Other Perspectives on Education
1.1.4 - Class Differences in Achievement — External Factors
1.1.5 - Class Differences in Achievement — Internal Factors
1.1.6 - Ethnic Differences in Achievement - External Factors
1.1.7 - Ethnic Differences in Achievement - Internal Factors
1.1.8 - Gender Differences in Achievement — External Factors
1.1.9 - Gender Differences in Achievement — Internal Factors
1.1.10 - Teacher-Pupil Relationships and Pupil Identities
1.1.11 - Pupil Subcultures
1.1.12 - The Hidden Curriculum and Organisation of Teaching and Learning
1.1.13 - Educational Policy — Selection, Comprehensivisation, and Marketisation
1.1.14 - Education policy - New Labour, coalition and equality
1.1.15 - Education policy - privatisation and globalisation
3.1.2 Methods in Context
1.2.1 - Education research - experiments and questionnaires
1.2.2 - Applying Research Methods to Education — Interviews and Observation
1.2.3 - Applying Research Methods to Education — Secondary Sources
3.1.3 / 3.3.2 Shared Theory and Methods
1.3.1 - Positivism and Sociology
1.3.2 - Interpretivism and Sociology
1.3.3 - Questionnaires
1.3.4 - Interviews
1.3.5 - Participant and Non-participant Observation
1.3.6 - Experiments
1.3.7 - Secondary Sources
1.3.8 - Research Design
1.3.9 - Choosing methods - theory, practicality and ethics
1.3.10 - Consensus Theory - Functionalism
1.3.11 - Conflict Theory — Marxism and Feminism
1.3.12 - Social Action Theory
1.3.13 - Modernity and Postmodernity in Sociological Theory
1.3.14 - Sociology and Science
1.3.15 - Objectivity, value freedom and social policy
Paper 2: Topics in Sociology
Option 1 - 3.2.1 Culture and Identity
2.1.1 - Conceptions of Culture
2.1.2 - Subcultures and Cultural Diversity
2.1.3 - Socialisation Process and Agencies of Socialisation
2.1.4 - The Self, Identity and Difference
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2.1.5 - Identity and Social Class
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2.1.6 - Identity and Gender
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2.1.7 - Identity and Ethnicity
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2.1.8 - Identity and Age, Disability, Sexuality, and Nationality
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2.1.9 - Identity, Consumption and Leisure
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2.1.10 - Identity, Production and Globalisation
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Option 1 - 3.2.2 Families and Households
2.2.1 - Functionalist and New Right Perspectives on the Family
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2.2.2 - Marxist and Feminist Perspectives on the Family
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2.2.3 - Postmodern and Personal Life Perspectives on the Family
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2.2.4 - Changing Patterns of Marriage, Cohabitation, and Civil Partnerships
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2.2.5 - Changing Patterns of Separation, Divorce, and Remarriage
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2.2.6 - Family Diversity
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2.2.7 - The Life Course and Diversity of Household Structures
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2.2.8 - Gender Roles and Domestic Labour
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2.2.9 - Power Relationships within the Family
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2.2.10 - The Nature of Childhood
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2.2.11 - Changes in the Status of Children in Family and Society
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2.2.12 - Demographic Trends — Birth Rates, Death Rates, and Family Size
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2.2.13 - Demographic trends in families and households
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Option 1 - 3.2.3 Health
2.3.1 - Social Construction of Health, Illness, and Disability
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2.3.2 - The Biomedical and Social Models of Health
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2.3.3 - Health Inequalities by Social Class
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2.3.4 - Health Inequalities by Gender
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2.3.5 - Health Inequalities by Ethnicity and Region
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2.3.6 - Inequalities in Provision of and Access to Health Care
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2.3.7 - The Nature and Social Distribution of Mental Illness
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2.3.8 - Social Construction of Mental Illness and Models of Mental Illness
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2.3.9 - The Role of Medicine and the Health Professions
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2.3.10 - The Globalised Health Industry
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Option 1 - 3.2.4 Work, Poverty and Welfare
2.4.1 - Defining and Measuring Poverty
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2.4.2 - The Existence and Persistence of Poverty in Contemporary Society
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2.4.3 - Distribution of Poverty, Wealth and Income Between Social Groups
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2.4.4 - Explanations of Poverty - Individualistic and Cultural Theories
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2.4.5 - Explanations of Poverty - Structural and Marxist Theories
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2.4.6 - The Welfare State — Different Models and the Role of the State
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2.4.7 - Private, Voluntary and Informal Welfare Provision
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2.4.8 - Responses and Solutions to Poverty — Welfare Reforms
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2.4.9 - Labour process - Fordism, post-Fordism and control
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2.4.10 - The Role of Technology, Skill, and De-skilling in Work
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2.4.11 - The Significance of Work and Worklessness for Life Chances
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2.4.12 - Globalisation and Work
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Option 2 - 3.2.5 Beliefs in Society
2.5.1 - Ideology and Science
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2.5.2 - Religion as a Belief System - Functionalist Perspective
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2.5.3 - Religion as a Belief System — Marxist and Feminist Perspectives
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2.5.4 - Religion as a Conservative Force
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2.5.5 - Religion as a Force for Social Change
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2.5.6 - Religious Organisations - Churches and Denominations
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2.5.7 - Religious Organisations - Sects and Cults
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2.5.8 - New Religious Movements and New Age Movements
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2.5.9 - Religion and Social Groups — Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and Age
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2.5.10 - Secularisation - Evidence and Arguments For
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2.5.11 - Secularisation - Evidence and Arguments Against; Religious Revival
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2.5.12 - Globalisation and the Spread of Religions
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Option 2 - 3.2.6 Global Development
2.6.1 - Defining Development, Underdevelopment, and Global Inequality
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2.6.2 - Modernisation Theory
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2.6.3 - Dependency Theory
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2.6.4 - World Systems Theory and Neo-liberalism
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2.6.5 - Globalisation - Cultural, Political, and Economic Dimensions
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2.6.6 - Transnational Corporations and Development
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2.6.7 - Non-governmental Organisations and International Agencies
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2.6.8 - Aid and Trade in Development
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2.6.9 - Industrialisation, Urbanisation, and the Environment
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2.6.10 - War, Conflict, and Development
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2.6.11 - Education, Employment, and Health as Aspects of Development
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2.6.12 - Gender, Demographic Change, and Development
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Option 2 - 3.2.7 The Media
2.7.01 - New Media and Digital Communications
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2.7.2 - The Impact of New Media on Society
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2.7.3 - Ownership and Control of the Media
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2.7.4 - Ownership and Control — Pluralist vs Marxist Perspectives
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2.7.5 - Media, Globalisation, and Popular Culture
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2.7.06 - News selection - values, agenda-setting and gatekeeping
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2.7.7 - News presentation - bias, moral panics and citizen journalism
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2.7.8 - Media Representations of Social Class and Age
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2.7.9 - Media Representations of Ethnicity
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2.7.10 - Media Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Disability
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2.7.11 - Media content and audiences - hypodermic and uses - gratifications
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2.7.12 - Media content and audiences - reception and postmodernism
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Option 2 - 3.2.8 Stratification and Differentiation
2.8.1 - Theories of Stratification — Functionalist, Marxist, and Weberian
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2.8.2 - Theories of Stratification - Feminist and Postmodernist Approaches
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2.8.3 - Dimensions of Inequality - Class, Status, and Power
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2.8.4 - Life Chances by Social Class
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2.8.5 - Life Chances by Gender
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2.8.6 - Life Chances by Ethnicity, Age, and Disability
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2.8.7 - Defining and Measuring Social Class
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2.8.8 - Gender and Social Class — Classification Issues
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2.8.9 - Class structure - upper class and transnational capitalists
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2.8.10 - Class structure - middle and working classes
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2.8.11 - Changes in the Class Structure - Globalisation and Its Implications
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2.8.12 - Social Mobility
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Paper 3: Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods
3.3.1 Crime and Deviance
3.1.1 - Defining Crime, Deviance, Social Order, and Social Control
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3.1.2 - Functionalist Theories of Crime
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3.1.3 - Subcultural Theories of Crime
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3.1.4 - Marxist Theories of Crime
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3.1.5 - Interactionist - Labelling Theory of Crime
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3.1.6 - Realist Theories of Crime
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3.1.7 - Feminist Theories of Crime
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3.1.8 - Postmodern Perspectives on Crime
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3.1.9 - Crime and Ethnicity
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3.1.10 - Crime and Social Class
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3.1.11 - Crime and Locality
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3.1.12 - Globalisation and Crime
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3.1.13 - The Media and Crime
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3.1.14 - Green Crime, Human Rights, and State Crimes
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3.1.15 - Crime Control, Surveillance, and Prevention
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3.1.16 - Punishment, Victims, and the Role of the Criminal Justice System
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3.3.1 / 3.3.2 Synoptic Crime, Theory and Methods
3.2.1 - Applying Theory to Crime
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3.2.2 - Crime research methods - practical, ethical and theory issues
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3.2.3 - Crime, science, value freedom and social policy
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