A Level Year 1 and 2 unit content list
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Paper 1
Education
Marxism and the role of the education
Functionalism and the role of the education
New Right and the role of the education
Feminism and the role of the education
Interactionism and the role of education
Education and social policy
Class and educational achievement
Ethnicity and educational achievement
Gender and educational achievement
Education in the context of methods
Experiments
Questionnaires
Interviews
Statistics
Observation
Documents
Theory and methods
Positivism and interpretivism
Sociological theories
Modernity vs. postmodernity
Value free sociology
Sociology as a science
Social policy and sociology
Quantitative and qualitative
Experiments
Questionnaires
Interviews
Statistics
Observation
Documents
Case studies
Longitudinal survey
Triangulation
Reasons for choice
Paper 2
Families and Households
Functionalism and the role of the family
Marxism and the role of the family
New Right and the role of the family
Personal life/interactionism and the role of the family
Feminism and the role of the family
Family diversity
Divorce, marriage and cohabitation
Division of labour debate
Power relationships between couples
Demography
Childhood
Beliefs in society
Functionalism and the role of religion
Marxism and the role of religion
Neo-Marxism and the role of religion
Feminism and the role of religion
Weber and the role of religion
Postmodernism and the role of religion
Science as a belief system
Ideology as a belief system
Religion of a conservative force
Religion as a force for social change
Age and religiosity
Gender and religiosity
Class and religiosity
Ethnicity and religiosity
Religious organisations
New Religious Movements
New Age Movements
Secularisation
Globalisation and the spiritual revolution
Paper 3
Crime and deviance
Functionalism and crime
Subcultures and crime
Marxism and crime
New Criminology and crime
Labelling and crime
Feminism and crime
Realism and crime
Crime statistics
Ethnicity and crime
Class and crime
Gender and crime
Globalisation and crime
Green and state crimes
Media and crime
Punishment and crime
Crime prevention
Victims and crime
Theory and methods
See above list