Key Stage 5 Sociology
Exam Board and Specification
AQA Sociology (7192)
Grades are awarded based on 3 exams at the end of Year 13, each lasting 2 hours. They are marked out of 80 each and all contribute equally to the final grade. Paper 1 covers Education with Theory and Methods, Paper 2 is called Topics in Sociology and covers Culture and Identity and Belief, Paper 3 covers Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods.
Topics/Skills Taught
Exam technique is developed throughout the two years.
Year 12
Culture and Identity
- Types of culture
- Socialisation
- The Self, Identity and Difference
- Impacts on Leisure choices
Education
- Functions of Education
- Differential Educational Achievement
- Processes in schools.
- Education Policy
Research Methods
- Research design
- Types of data
- Qualitative methods
- Quantitative methods
- Practical, Ethical and Theoretical issues
Year 13
Crime and Deviance
- Social construction of crime and deviance
- Social distribution of crime
- Globalisation and crime
- Theories of crime
- Control of crime
Belief
- Ideology, science and religion
- The functions of religion
- Religion as a cause of change
- Types of religious groups
- Differing levels of religiosity
Theory
- Key Sociological Theories
- Positivism v Interpretivism
- Is Sociology a science?
- Objectivity and value freedom
- Social Policy
Extra-Curricular Opportunities
In Year 13 Students are offered the opportunity to attend a University style conference on Criminology.