A2 Sociology

A Level

In Winchester

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Description

  • Type

    A Level

  • Location

    Winchester

  • Duration

    2 Years

Sociology is a challenging, interesting subject that seeks to explain how our society is changing and the relationship between the individual and broader social and cultural processes. We discuss a diverse range of topics that are relevant to all our lives and use current issues to illustrate sociological debates and perspectives. AS Sociology aims to develop your sociological awareness.

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Government funding available

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Location

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Winchester (Hampshire)
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Owens Road, SO22 6RX

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About this course

5 GCSEs A-C including English and Maths. It is not necessary for you to have studied GCSE Sociology before you join the AS course but am interest in contemporary society is essential for you to succeed.

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Course programme

AS/A2 SOCIOLOGY

AQA (1-2 years)

Course Content:
Sociology is a challenging, interesting subject that seeks to explain how our society is changing and the relationship between the individual and broader social and cultural processes. We discuss a diverse range of topics that are relevant to all our lives and use current issues to illustrate sociological debates and perspectives. AS Sociology aims to develop your sociological awareness through active engagement with contemporary society. Sociology uses research evidence to ask searching questions about the structure of our society, inequalities in wealth and power and how society shapes our identities and life chances. The core themes of power, stratification, social control and socialisation are addressed in al four units of the AS/A2 courses. Similarly debates concerning sociological research methods are covered across all units.
AS Sociology:
Unit 1: The Family:
This unit examines the role and purpose of the family and competing sociological explanations of the relationship between the family and wider society / culture. The changing relationships within the family are explored, in particular the changing nature of childhood and gender roles and responsibilities. We explore the debates surrounding the changing patterns of family life in contemporary Britain and analyse the competing sociological perspectives on the shifts in rates of marriage, cohabitation and divorce.
Unit 2: Education / Sociological Methods:
This unit examines the role of education in terms of social control, socialisation and the distribution of life chances. We explore a range of explanations for differential educational attainment between social groups and the research evidence on how pupils' respond to education. This unit also introduces you to the issues surrounding sociological research and will apply these questions to the sociological analysis of education.
A2 Sociology:
Unit 3: Beliefs in Society:
In this unit we examine the changing nature of beliefs systems in the UK and around the world and how religious belief, practice and organisations are being shaped by globalisation, science and technology. The nature and extent of secularisation in both the UK and the wider global context is explored and related to how the beliefs and practices of different social groups is reflective of their power, status and response to rapid social, cultural and political change.
Unit 4: Crime and Deviance:
This is unit examines the social distribution of crime; the link between globalisation and crime, green crime, human rights and state crimes; competing explanations of crime and deviance; trends and patterns of crime in society; the sociology of suicide and the connections between crime and deviance and sociological theories, methods and the other units covered on the course (Family, Education and Beliefs in Society). The synoptic nature of this unit requires students to connect their understanding of sociological theories, research methods and theories and the other topics studied on the course with crime and deviance.

A2 Sociology

Price on request