Secondary
PGCE
SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE AUDIT 2014-2015
SOCIOLOGY
NAME
DATE
Purpose of the Audit
Your indications of subject knowledge strengths and weaknesses will be used as a basis for
discussion during your individual interview and will inform target-setting afterwards. When the
course begins, the audit will also be used to inform planning for the development of key areas of
individual trainee subject knowledge.
Please complete the enclosed audit as accurately and completely as possible using the following
‘codes’ where applicable.
Knowledge Grade
0
1
2
No secure knowledge
Basic knowledge can be applied to the solution of problems
Secure knowledge that can be used to explain to others
Source of Knowledge
A
B
C
D
GCSE Qualification or below
AS or A Level Study
Degree or Post Graduate academic study
Other (e.g. Employment, Professional Training)
To assist in completing this audit, please download AQA specifications for AS/A2 Psychology and
Sociology from: www.aqa.org.uk
Sociology Topics
1.
1.1
1.5
Culture and identity
Different conceptions of culture e.g. popular
culture, sub culture, global culture
The socialisation process; the role of the
agencies of socialisation
Sources and different conceptions of the self,
identity and difference
Relationship of identity to age, disability,
ethnicity, gender, nationality, sexuality and social
class in contemporary society
Leisure, consumption and identity
2.
Families and households
2.1
Relationship of the family to social structure and
social change
Changing patterns of marriage, cohabitation,
divorce, child bearing; diversity of contemporary
family and household structures
the nature and extent of changes within the
1.2
1.3
1.4
2.2
2.3
Knowledge
Grade
(0 or 1 or 2)
Source of
Knowledge
(A or B or C or D)
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Sociology Topics
2.4
Wealth, poverty and welfare
3.1
Definitions and ways of measuring poverty,
wealth and income
Distribution of poverty, wealth and income
Existence and persistence of poverty in
contemporary society
Different responses to poverty; the role of social
policy since the 1940s
Nature and role of public, private voluntary and
informal welfare provision
3.4
3.5
4.
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
5.
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5
5.6
6.
6.1
6.2
6.3
6.4
6.5
Source of
Knowledge
(A or B or C or D)
family; gender roles, domestic labour and power
relationships
The nature of childhood; changes in the status of
children in the family and society
3.
3.2
3.3
Knowledge
Grade
(0 or 1 or 2)
Education
The role and purpose of education, including
vocational education
Differential educational achievement of social
groups
Relationships and processes within schools,
including the hidden curriculum, teaching and
learning
The significance of educational policies
Application of sociological research methods
Health
Health, illness, disability and the body as social
and biological constructs
The unequal distribution of health and illness in
the UK
Inequalities in the provision of, and access to,
health care
Sociological study of the nature and social
distribution of mental illness
The role of medicine and the health professions
Application of sociological research methods
Sociological methods
Qualitative and quantitative methods and their
design
Sources of data
The distinction between primary and secondary
data
Relationship between positivism, interpretivism
and sociological methods; the nature of ‘social
facts’
Theoretical, practical and ethical considerations
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Sociology Topics
7.
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7
Knowledge
Grade
(0 or 1 or 2)
Source of
Knowledge
(A or B or C or D)
Topics in Sociology
Beliefs in society
Global development
Mass media
Power and politics
Crime and deviance
Stratification and differentiation
Theory and methods
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