This worksheet covers the secularisation thesis for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes definitions of secularisation and arguments for and against secularisation in the US and UK. Arguments in favour include rationalisation and disenchantment, structural differentiation and religious diversity. Arguments against include cultural defence and cultural transition, post-modernism, the growth of new religious movements and the growth of religious fundamentalism.

This worksheet covers religious fundamentalism for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes definitions by Almond and Bruce as well as theories by Bruce on religion as a form of cultural defence, Giddens on globalisation and fundamentalism, Castells on responses to postmodernity and Huntington’s on the clash of civilisations.

This worksheet covers the distinction between ideology and religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes definitions of ideology put forward by pluralist theory, Marxism and Neo Marxism and feminist perspectives. It also discusses the distinction between religion and ideology sociologically.

This worksheet covers the social construction of childhood including the modern western notions of childhood, social differences in children in the same society, cross cultural differences and historical differences in childhood.

This worksheet covers Alternative families on families and households including same sex families, one person households, Living Apart Together (LATs), reconstituted families and lone parent families.

This worksheet covers family diversity which is occurring in British families and households. It is split into two sections covering modernism on family diversity (Functionalism, New Right, Chester’s Neo Conventional Family and The Rapoports) and postmodernism on family diversity (The Individualisation Thesis, The Connectedness Thesis and Life Cycle Diversity).

This worksheet covers the darker side of the family which refers to domestic and child abuse. It includes statistics on both areas and explanations from Radical and Marxist Feminists as well the materialist perspective.

This worksheet covers the Personal Life Perspective (PLP) on families and households including Nordquvist and Smart.

This worksheet covers New Right perspectives on families and households including Murray’s dependency culture as well as the ‘solution’ they provide

This worksheet covers the different types of questionnaires in Sociology for the research methods topic, including open and closed questions

This worksheet covers the Functionalist theory of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Durkheim’s theory of Totemism, Parsons’ universal guideline for human action, Malinowski’s life crisis and Bellah’s theory of civil religion.

This worksheet covers the key definitions of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology, including the substantive, functional and constructive definitions.

This worksheet covers family policy passed by various past and previous governments and the impact this had on families and households in the UK

This worksheet includes key definition for families vs households, the types of marriages and types of families that students should be aware of on the A Level Sociology course

This worksheet covers the reasons why death rates are declining in the UK as part of the families and households topic in A Level Sociology

This worksheet covers the reasons why divorce is increasing in the UK as part of the families and households topic in A Level Sociology

This worksheet covers the reasons why marriage is declining in the UK and why cohabitation is increasing as part of the families and households topic in A Level Sociology

This worksheet covers the reasons why there has been a decrease in birth rate and decrease in family size in the UK as part of the families and households topic in A Level Sociology

This worksheet covers the arguments in favour and against the view that the family has lost its function including functionalist perspectives like Parsons, Fletcher and Murdock as well as Ross, Litwak, Marxist and feminist perspectives.

Worksheet / notes summarising the gender differences in subject choice with specific focus on external and internal explanations