This booklet covers the education 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 and write ideas too depending on the topic.

This booklet covers all the research methods topics needed to learn for the Sociology A Level. It also helps to plan and write essay questions on research methods.

This booklet covers the theory and methods 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. The start has empty boxes to recap the research methods topics (see research methods notes sold separately) followed by detailed revision notes for the theory aspect of the course.

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 distinction between religion and science for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It tries to examine which is ‘better’ or ‘correct’ in the debate for modern societies. It includes theories by Popper on what is science, Kuhn on paradigm shifts and scientific revolutions, Horton on open and closed belief systems and the social influences on science.

This worksheet covers the domestic division of flavour within families and households which involves gender roles and power within the family. It includes functionalist approaches, the march of progress view with symmetrical families, feminist perspectives, cultural and material explanations and same sex couples gender scripts. It also covers a section on resources and decision making within families too.

This worksheet covers Feminist perspectives on on families and households including Liberal, Socialist, Radical and Difference Feminist approaches.

This worksheet covers the arguments for and against the question of whether the nuclear family is universal. It includes Murdock, New Right, The Nayar, same sex families, lone parent families and communes and religious beliefs.

This worksheet covers interviews used in sociology as part of research methods. It covers structured, semi structured and unstructured interviews

This worksheet covers the Marxist theory of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Karl Marx including the ‘opium of the people’, Althusser’s ideological state apparatus and Lenin’s spiritual gin conception.

This guide provides a structure to answer the 20 mark AQA essay linking methods in context to education with an example of an exam question

This is a methods in context revision notes covering case studies and longitudinal studies used in sociological research

Worksheet / notes summarising the Postmodern perspective on education

Worksheet / notes summarising the Interactionist or commonly known as labelling perspective on education policy

Worksheet / notes summarising the impact of privatisation on education policy

Worksheet / notes summarising the Sociology of education policy including the New Right, New Labour and Coalition governments

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

This worksheet covers Interactionism / labelling theory on crime and deviance for A Level Sociology. It includes: Becker’s social construction of crime, Lemert’s primary and secondary labelling, Young’s effects of labelling and Goffman’s deviance within institutions. Overall evaluation is included for each Sociologist. 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 crime control, prevention and punishment for crime and deviance in A Level Sociology. It includes: the types of punishment, functionalist perspectives on punishment and Marxism on punishment. This is followed by crime prevention and control theories put forward by Left Realism (social and community crime prevention), Right Realism (situational crime prevention and increasing social control), environmental crime prevention and Foucault on surveillance. Overall detailed evaluation is also provided of each perspective. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.