<p>These resources have been designed for the AQA A level / AS level sociology exam board and meet their assessment objectives (knowledge, understanding, application, analysis and evaluation skils. The resources cover the following topic areas. The resources are mainly powerpoints with student activities in them. The resources use model essays, scaffolding for essay writting, quizzing for recall/ retention, past exam questions, assessment for learning questions, deliberate practice and dual coding of concepts. Where it’s stated to read the textbook, the textbook used is the either thw AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a AS resource) or AQA A Level Sociology Book two Including A Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a A level resource. Visit my TES resource shop for more complete A level sociology resources.</p> <p><strong>Beliefs in Society</strong><br /> Students are expected to be familiar with sociological explanations of the following content:</p> <ul> <li>ideology, science and religion, including both Christian and non-Christian religious traditions</li> <li>the relationship between social change and social stability, and religious beliefs, practices and organisations</li> <li>religious organisations, including cults, sects, denominations, churches and New Age movements, and their relationship to religious and spiritual belief and practice</li> <li>the relationship between different social groups and religious/spiritual organisations and movements, beliefs and practices</li> <li>the significance of religion and religiosity in the contemporary world, including the nature and extent of secularisation in a global context, and globalisation and the spread of religions.</li> </ul>

<p>These resources have been designed for the AQA A level / AS level sociology exam board and meet their assessment objectives (knowledge, understanding, application, analysis and evaluation skils. The resources cover the following topic areas. The resources are mainly powerpoints with student activities in them. The resources use model essays, scaffolding for essay writting, quizzing for recall/ retention, past exam questions, assessment for learning questions, deliberate practice and dual coding of concepts. Where it’s stated to read the textbook, the textbook used is the either thw AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a AS resource) or AQA A Level Sociology Book two Including A Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a A level resource. Visit my TES resource shop for more complete A level sociology resources.</p> <p><strong>Crime and Deviance</strong><br /> Students are expected to be familiar with sociological explanations of the following content:</p> <ul> <li>crime, deviance, social order and social control</li> <li>the social distribution of crime and deviance by ethnicity, gender and social class, including recent patterns and trends in crime</li> <li>globalisation and crime in contemporary society; the media and crime; green crime; human rights and state crimes</li> <li>crime control, surveillance, prevention and punishment, victims, and the role of the criminal justice system and other agencies.</li> </ul>

<p>These resources have been designed for the AQA A level / AS level sociology exam board. The resources cover the following topic areas.</p> <p>**quantitative and qualitative methods of research; **</p> <ul> <li>quantitative and qualitative methods of research; research design</li> <li>sources of data, including questionnaires, interviews, participant and non-participant observation, experiments, documents and official statistics</li> <li>the distinction between primary and secondary data, and between quantitative and qualitative data</li> <li>the relationship between positivism, interpretivism and sociological methods; the nature of ‘social facts’</li> <li>the theoretical, practical and ethical considerations influencing choice of topic, choice of method(s) and the conduct of research.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Methods in Context</strong>:<br /> these resrouces cover the the following areas:</p> <ul> <li>Students must be able to apply sociological research methods to the study of education.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Theory and Methods A level sociology:</strong><br /> these resrouces cover the the following areas:</p> <ul> <li>quantitative and qualitative methods of research; research design</li> <li>sources of data, including questionnaires, interviews, participant and non-participant observation, experiments, documents and official statistics</li> <li>the distinction between primary and secondary data, and between quantitative and qualitative data</li> <li>the relationship between positivism, interpretivism and sociological methods; the nature of ‘social facts’</li> <li>the theoretical, practical and ethical considerations influencing choice of topic, choice of method(s) and the conduct of research</li> <li>consensus, conflict, structural and social action theories</li> <li>the concepts of modernity and post-modernity in relation to sociological theory</li> <li>the nature of science and the extent to which Sociology can be regarded as scientific</li> <li>the relationship between theory and methods</li> <li>debates about subjectivity, objectivity and value freedom</li> <li>the relationship between Sociology and social policy.</li> </ul> <p>**The resources are mainly powerpoints with student activities in them. The resources use model essays, scaffolding for essay writting, quizzing for recall/ retention, past exam questions, assessment for learning questions, deliberate practice and dual coding of concepts. Where it’s stated to read the textbook, the textbook used is the either thw AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a AS resource) or AQA A Level Sociology Book two Including A Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a A level resource **</p>

<p>These resources have been designed for the AQA A level / AS level sociology exam board. The resources cover the following topic areas. The resources are mainly powerpoints with student activities in them. The resources use model essays, scaffolding for essay writting, quizzing for recall/ retention, past exam questions, assessment for learning questions, deliberate practice and dual coding of concepts. Where it’s stated to read the textbook, the textbook used is the either thw AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a AS resource) or AQA A Level Sociology Book two Including A Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a A level resource). Visit my shop for more A level sociology resources.</p> <p><strong>Education<br /> Students are expected to be familiar with sociological explanations of the following content:</strong>**</p> <ul> <li>the role and functions of the education system, including its relationship to the economy and to class structure</li> <li>differential educational achievement of social groups by social class, gender and ethnicity in contemporary society</li> <li>relationships and processes within schools, with particular reference to teacher/pupil relationships, pupil identities and subcultures, the hidden curriculum, and the organisation of teaching and learning</li> <li>the significance of educational policies, including policies of selection, marketisation and privatisation, and policies to achieve greater equality of opportunity or outcome, for an understanding of the structure, role, impact and experience of and access to education; the impact of globalisation on educational policy.</li> </ul> <p>If you wish to download the Methods in context resources, please purchase my Theory and Methods resources.</p>

<p>These resources have been designed for the AQA A level / AS level sociology exam board and meet their assessment objectives (knowledge, understanding, application, analysis and evaluation skils. The resources cover the following topic areas. The resources are mainly powerpoints with student activities in them. The resources use model essays, scaffolding for essay writting, quizzing for recall/ retention, past exam questions, assessment for learning questions, deliberate practice and dual coding of concepts. Where it’s stated to read the textbook, the textbook used is the either thw AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a AS resource) or AQA A Level Sociology Book two Including A Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a A level resource. Visit my TES resource shop for more complete A level sociology resources. This is a large file so please download the second part of this unit at my shop.</p> <p><strong>Families and Households</strong><br /> These resources cover sociological explanations of the following content:</p> <ul> <li>the relationship of the family to the social structure and social change, with particular reference to the economy and to state policies</li> <li>changing patterns of marriage, cohabitation, separation, divorce, childbearing and the life course, including the sociology of personal life, and the diversity of contemporary family and household structures</li> <li>gender roles, domestic labour and power relationships within the family in contemporary society</li> <li>the nature of childhood, and changes in the status of children in the family and society</li> <li>demographic trends in the United Kingdom since 1900: birth rates, death rates, family size, life expectancy, ageing population, and migration and globalisation.</li> </ul>

<p>These resources have been designed for the AQA A level / AS level sociology exam board and meet their assessment objectives (knowledge, understanding, application, analysis and evaluation skils. The resources cover the following topic areas. The resources are mainly powerpoints with student activities in them. The resources use model essays, scaffolding for essay writting, quizzing for recall/ retention, past exam questions, assessment for learning questions, deliberate practice and dual coding of concepts. Where it’s stated to read the textbook, the textbook used is the either thw AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a AS resource) or AQA A Level Sociology Book two Including A Level by Webb et al (if this resource is a A level resource. Visit my TES resource shop for more complete A level sociology resources.</p> <p><strong>Families and Households</strong><br /> Students are expected to be familiar with sociological explanations of the following content:<br /> *</p> <ul> <li>the relationship of the family to the social structure and social change, with particular reference to the economy and to state policies</li> <li>changing patterns of marriage, cohabitation, separation, divorce, childbearing and the life course, including the sociology of personal life, and the diversity of contemporary family and household structures</li> <li>gender roles, domestic labour and power relationships within the family in contemporary society</li> <li>the nature of childhood, and changes in the status of children in the family and society</li> <li>demographic trends in the United Kingdom since 1900: birth rates, death rates, family size, life expectancy, ageing population, and migration and globalisation.</li> </ul>