Functionalist perspectives on education including Durkheim, Parsons, and Davis and Moore

This worksheet covers the Marxist theory of crime and deviance for A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Chambliss, Snider and Gordon. It examines the criminogenic nature of capitalism and asks: who makes the laws? Who does it benefit? Who breaks the law? Who gets caught? Why break the law? Why enforce the law? Overall evaluation of Marxism is also included. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.

This worksheet covers the explanations put forward by sociologists to explain state crimes and human rights violations committed by governments as part of the crime and deviance topic for A Level Sociology. It begins by outlining what state crimes are followed by four types that can emerge. The definition of state crimes are explored including: Green’s view, Michalowski on zemiology, labelling theory, the view of international law and human rights. This is followed by explanations to understand state crime including: Adorno’s authoritarian personality, Hamilton’s features of obedience, Bauman on state crimes in modernity and Marxism on the capitalist state.

The definitions of all concepts are outline before exploring why it is important for sociology to be value free, whether it is possible for sociology to be value free, the myth of value freedom, followed by dealing with values in sociological research and whether value freedom is desirable outlined by various perspectives.

This worksheet includes definitions of both concepts , how policy if formulated before examining the influence of social policy on sociology, followed by the influence of sociology on social policy and selective use of sociology to justify policy. The perspectives of functionalism, Marxism, feminism, Weber and postmodernism is briefly examined in regards to what they think about social policy too.

This worksheet covers Feminist theory on society for A Level Sociology. It includes theories by put forward by Liberal feminists, Marxist or socialist feminists, radical feminists, postmodernist feminists and black feminists. Overall evaluation is also included as well as the feminist view on research methods. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.

This worksheet covers Postmodernist theory on society for A Level Sociology. It includes theories by put forward by Lyotard and Baudrillard as well as the main assumptions put forward by the perspective. Overall evaluation is also included and the Postmodernist view on research methods. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.

Quiz questions on all topics for Research Methods, including the following: • Methodological perspectives • Choosing s research method • Factors influencing choice of topics • The research process • Linking education to methods in context • Questionnaires • Interviews • Observations • Experiments • Secondary sources of data • Other research methods

This booklet includes all the notes for the Beliefs in Society topic in Sociology. It is a revision style booklet with spaces for students to add comments, evaluation too depending on the topic.

This booklet covers all the topics needed to learn for the Families and households unit in A Level Sociology. It provides students and teachers with notes to revise or teach from.

This booklet covers the crime and deviance unit in the Sociology A Level. It incorporates all the topics in the AQA specification that can come up as exam questions. It is set out as a revision style booklet with spaces for student to comment depending on the topic.

This worksheet covers Max Weber’s theory of the protestant ethic which led to the spirt of capitalism in religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology.

This worksheet covers the Neo Marxism theory of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Bloch and his principle of hope, Gramsci on hegemony, Maduro on liberation theology.

This worksheet covers the Postmodern theory of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Davie’s believing without belonging, Hervieu-Leger’s spiritual shopper, Bauman’s religion in postmodernity, Lyon’s Jesus in Disneyland and Giddens on reflexivity. It also includes Heelas on the New age in postmodernity.

This worksheet covers the reasons for the growth of religious groups and movements for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by postmodernism, practical reasons by Heelas, relative deprivation, secularisation, marginalisation and status frustration and finally globalisation and the media. It also has empty boxes under each theory so the students can think and write whether the explanation applies mostly to women, the middle class, young people, or all three groups.

This worksheet covers New Age Movements for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Bruce and his features of the NAM, Sutcliffe and his characterisation of the New Age and Heelas with individual spirituality.

This worksheet covers New Religious Movements for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Baker and his features of NRMs, Wallis’ threefold typography and Stark and Bainbridge’s distinction between cults and sects.

This worksheet covers the definition and examples for religious organisation. It also has a table for students to complete on religious categorisations to check their understanding for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology.

This worksheet covers ethnicity and religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes the different religions practised by minority groups and the reasons why they are more religious than the white UK population including the functionalist view, Bruce’s cultural transition and defence, Bird’s five factors, marginalisation and status frustration, social deprivation and compensation and finally social identity. The reasons as to why young Muslim are more religious are also explored.

This worksheet covers age and religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes the reasons why older people are more likely to be religious including disengagement, religious socialisation and ill health and death. It also includes why younger people are less religious including the declining attraction of religion, the expanding spiritual marketplace, the privatisation of religion, declining religious education and the secular spirituality.