This comprehensive revision guide covers all of the specification points, with key terms, case study examples and evaluative arguments. Examples are shown clearly through Past Paper answer keys. Although directed for the CIE syllabus, this is applicable to the AQA, OCR and WJEC specifications. Relevant for IGCSE, GCSE, AS and A2. Content included: The various forms of media Role of advertising Ownership and control of the media Freedom and censorship in the media Pluralist, Marxist and postmodernist perspectives on the nature and role of the media Patterns of media use by gender, age, social class and ethnicity Media representation of ethnicity, gender, age, class and disability The role of the traditional/new media in shaping values, attitudes and behaviour with specific reference to television and violence, political beliefs and voting, patterns of consumption, gender stereotyping, traditional stereotyping, the influence of the Internet in areas such as social networking Agenda setting, gate-keeping and stereotyping through the selection and presentation of the news Explanations of the influence of the media: hypodermic syringe, audience selection, cultural effects and uses and gratifications models Bias and distortion in the media, including propaganda and moral panics Developments in the media including changes in ownership, globalisation, interactivity, the digital divide, diversification and convergence Influence of media representations on the audience

This comprehensive revision guide covers all of the specification points, with key terms, case study examples and evaluative arguments. Examples are shown clearly through Past Paper answer keys. Although directed for the CIE syllabus, this is applicable to the AQA, OCR and WJEC specifications. Relevant for IGCSE, GCSE, AS and A2. Content included: The difference between ‘crime’ and ‘deviance’; relativity Formal and informal social control Measurements of crime and their strengths and limitations Patterns and explanations of crime by age, class gender and ethnicity Victims of crime Policing and law enforcement, including targeting, surveillance and crime prevention Crime related to new technology Dealing with crime: community sentencing, punishment, prison, rehabilitation Sociological explanations of deviant and criminal behaviour: Labelling theory, Marxist theory, Functionalist theory, socialisation (e.g. family and peer groups), lack of opportunity, relative deprivation, masculinity, status frustration Role of law enforcement agencies and the media in defining crime and deviance, stereotyping, labelling and deviancy amplification The development of sub-cultures and links to crime and deviance (with particular reference to youth)

BUY THE IGCSE PAPER 1 BUNDLE HERE: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cie-sociology-notes-igcse-paper-1-13002933 This comprehensive revision guide covers all of the specification points, with key terms, case study examples and evaluative arguments. Examples are shown clearly through Past Paper answer keys. Although directed for the CIE syllabus, this is applicable to the AQA, OCR and WJEC specifications. Relevant for IGCSE, GCSE, AS and A2. Content included: Culture, norms, values, roles, status and beliefs as social constructions; relativity Conformity and non-conformity; the agencies and processes of social control The formation and existences of sub-cultures Diversity and cultural variation in human behaviour and issues related to multiculturalism Age as an example of social construction Processes through which children learn social expectations Main agencies of socialisation and their impact on the individual, including the consequences of inadequate socialisation (feral children) The nature/nurture debate Role, age, gender, ethnic group and class as influences on social identity

BUY THE IGCSE PAPER 1 BUNDLE HERE: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cie-sociology-notes-igcse-paper-1-13002933 This comprehensive revision guide covers all of the specification points, with key terms, case study examples and evaluative arguments. Examples are shown clearly through Past Paper answer keys. Although directed for the CIE syllabus, this is applicable to the AQA, OCR and WJEC specifications. Relevant for IGCSE, GCSE, AS and A2. Content included: Structuralist, Interpretivist, Functionalist, Marxist, and Feminist views on society. Distinction between Positivist and Interpretivist approaches to research Main steps and challenges in devising and implementing a research strategy, such as sampling Ethical issues affecting the choice and implementation of a strategy The main methods used in sociological investigations; as well as their strengths and limitations Differences between primary and secondary sources; their strengths and limitations Differences between qualitative and quantitative sources; their strengths and limitations