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 the future of childhood and questions regarding whether childhood is disappearing, whether it has improved and whether we have a more child centred approach today. It covers the march of progress view, toxic childhood, the conflict approach, the disappearance of childhood approach and childhood in postmodernity.

This worksheet covers the social construction of childhood including the modern western notions of childhood, social differences in children in the same society, cross cultural differences and historical differences in childhood.

This worksheet covers the advantages and disadvantage of an ageing population within the families and households topic in the UK

This worksheet covers Marxist perspectives on on families and households including Engel’s, Althusser and Zaretsky and the unit of consumption theory.

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 New Right perspectives on families and households including Murray’s dependency culture as well as the ‘solution’ they provide

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 worksheet covers the Functionalist theory of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Durkheim’s theory of Totemism, Parsons’ universal guideline for human action, Malinowski’s life crisis and Bellah’s theory of civil religion.

This worksheet covers the reasons why marriage is declining in the UK and why cohabitation is increasing as part of the families and households topic in A Level Sociology

This worksheet covers the definition for demography, migration, immigration and globalisation. It also outlines the impact of migration and globalisation in the UK as part of the families and households topic in A Level Sociology. This worksheet can also be used for the impact ethnicity had on families and households.

Worksheet detailing how to revise for A Level Government and Politics

Worksheet / notes summarising the gender differences in subject choice with specific focus on external and internal explanations

This worksheet covers the research process in sociology including the difference between an aim and hypothesis, types of social surveys, open and closed questions, pilot studies, sampling etc.

Worksheet / notes summarising the ethnic differences in attainment or achievement and specifically why the Indian and Chinese students overachieve, while white, black, Pakistani and Bengali students underachieve with external and internal explanations

This worksheet gets teachers and students to think about how to link the sociology of education to research methods. For those teaching the AQA specification, this will help with the 20 mark essays.

This is a methods in context revision notes covering secondary sources of data used in sociological research

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