Sociology

1.1 The Sociological Approach: Perspectives and Concepts

1.2 Applying and Evaluating Sociological Knowledge

1.3 Positivist and Interpretivist Approaches to Research

1.4 Types and Sources of Data

1.5 Designing a Research Study

1.6 Sampling

1.7 Methods of Data Collection

1.8 Practical and Ethical Issues in Research

1.9 Interpreting and Presenting Data

2.1 Culture, Norms and Key Concepts

2.3 Socialisation: Types, Agencies and Mechanisms

2.4 Sociological Perspectives on Socialisation

2.6 Stigmatised Identities

3.1 Formal and Informal Social Control

3.2 Perspectives and Theories on Social Control

3.4 Power and Authority

3.5 Power Relationships and Inequality

4.1 Family Forms and Diversity

4.2 Marriage and Alternatives to Marriage

4.3 Perspectives on the Family

4.4 Conjugal Roles and the Domestic Division of Labour

4.5 Demographic Change and Social Change

4.6 Changing Roles Across the Family Life Course

4.7 Criticisms of the Family

4.8 Divorce

5.1 What education is: curriculum, school types and alternative provision

5.2 Sociological perspectives on the role and functions of education

5.3 Processes within schools: streaming, labelling and pupil responses

5.4 Measuring and explaining educational achievement

5.5 Educational achievement: social class

5.6 Educational achievement: gender

5.7 Educational achievement: ethnicity

5.8 Global inequalities in access to education

6.1 Social Stratification: Key Concepts and Perspectives

6.2 Social Class

6.3 Life Chances: Concepts, Domains and Explanations

6.4 Life Chances by Characteristic

6.5 Poverty

7.1 Defining and Explaining the Social Construction of Crime and Deviance

7.2 Theoretical Explanations of Crime and Deviance

7.3 Types of Crime and Public Debates about Crime

7.4 Patterns and Explanations of Offending by Social Characteristics

7.5 Measuring Crime and Crime Data

7.6 Formal and Informal Agencies of Control over Crime