This is a worksheet and revision notes covering the how sociologists choose topics. It covers primary and secondary data, qualitative and quantitative methods as well as triangulation
Worksheet / notes summarising the gender differences in attainment or achievement and specifically why boys underachieve with external and internal explanations
This worksheet covers the Anarchist view on society, including the contribution made by key thinkers and the different strands of the ideology. It covers both AQA and Edexcel specifications.
This worksheet covers the Anarchist view on the economy, including the contribution made by key thinkers and the different strands of the ideology. It covers both AQA and Edexcel specifications.
This worksheet covers a comprehensive insight into Collectivist Anarchism which includes Anarcho communism or mutualism with the contributions of Kropotkin and Goldman. It also explores Anarcho syndicalism and the work of Sorel, Chomsky and Rocker. It covers both AQA and Edexcel specifications.
This worksheet covers the Anarchist view on the state, including the contribution made by key thinkers and the different strands of the ideology. It covers both AQA and Edexcel specifications.
This worksheet covers a comprehensive insight into Individualist Anarchism which includes Anarcho Capitalism with the contribution of Rothbard, Friedman and Egoism advocated by Stiner. It covers both AQA and Edexcel specifications.
This worksheet covers the anarchist view on utopianism, including the contribution made by key thinkers. It also includes ideologies that view utopianism positively and negatively. It covers both AQA and Edexcel specifications.
This worksheet covers the explanations put forward by sociologists to explain the role of the media in the social construction and promotion of crime and deviance for A Level Sociology. It begins by explain why the media can be a problem and how they can distort our view of crime. Later, representations of crime is explored through agenda setting and newsworthiness, before looking into theories put forward by Greer on media distortion and exaggeration of crime, Cohen on deviancy amplification and Hall on policing the crisis. Cybercrimes are also explored. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.
This worksheet covers the explanations put forward by feminists and other sociologists to explain gender patterns in crime and deviance for A Level Sociology. It begins by exploring gender patterns for criminalisation, victimisation and representation in the criminal justice system. This is followed by explanations of low female criminality including: chivalry thesis and bias and double standards in the criminal justice system. Later causes of female crime is explored including: physiological explanations, Functionalism’s sex role theory, Heidensohn on patriarchal control, Carlen on class and gender deals and Messerschmidt on masculinity. Overall detailed evaluation is also provided of each perspective. 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 ethnic patterns in crime and deviance for A Level Sociology. It includes: racism within the criminal justice system, Left Realist explanations, Gilroy on the myth of black criminality, Hall on policing the crisis and also explores theories by Bowling and Philips as well as Alexander to explore Asian criminality. Overall detailed evaluation is also provided of each perspective. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.
This worksheet covers the Neo-Marxist theory of crime and deviance for A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Taylor, Watson and Young on new criminology and Hall on policing the crisis. Overall evaluation of each Sociologist is also included. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.