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 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 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 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 worksheet compares the two key Methodological perspectives in sociology (positivism and interpretivism) in a lot of detail

Worksheet / notes summarising the social class differences in attainment or achievement and specifically why the working class underachieve and the middle class overachieve with external and internal explanations

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

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

Worksheet / notes summarising the impact of education policy on social groups such as gender, class and ethnicity.

This worksheet covers the Marxist theory of crime and deviance for A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Chambliss, Snider and Gordon. It examines the criminogenic nature of capitalism and asks: who makes the laws? Who does it benefit? Who breaks the law? Who gets caught? Why break the law? Why enforce the law? Overall evaluation of Marxism is also included. 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 state crimes and human rights violations committed by governments as part of the crime and deviance topic for A Level Sociology. It begins by outlining what state crimes are followed by four types that can emerge. The definition of state crimes are explored including: Green’s view, Michalowski on zemiology, labelling theory, the view of international law and human rights. This is followed by explanations to understand state crime including: Adorno’s authoritarian personality, Hamilton’s features of obedience, Bauman on state crimes in modernity and Marxism on the capitalist state.

The definitions of all concepts are outline before exploring why it is important for sociology to be value free, whether it is possible for sociology to be value free, the myth of value freedom, followed by dealing with values in sociological research and whether value freedom is desirable outlined by various perspectives.

This worksheet covers Postmodernist theory on society for A Level Sociology. It includes theories by put forward by Lyotard and Baudrillard as well as the main assumptions put forward by the perspective. Overall evaluation is also included and the Postmodernist view on research methods. This worksheet can be used to teach form or for students to revise from.

This worksheet covers the Functionalist perspectives on families and households including Parsons and Murdock.

This booklet includes all the notes for the Beliefs in Society topic in Sociology. It is a revision style booklet with spaces for students to add comments, evaluation too depending on the topic.

This booklet covers the crime and deviance 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 depending on the topic.

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.