Curriculum

• Key Stage 3
• Key Stage 4
• Summary of GCSE Results 2012
• Key Stage 5
• English
• Mathematics
• Science
• Art and Design
• Business and Economics
• Citizenship
• Design and Technology
• Geography
• Government and Politics
• Health and Social Care
• History
• ICT
• Media and Film Studies
• MFL
• Performing Arts
• Physical Education
• PSHEE/Careers and Guidance
• Psychology
• RE
• Sociology
  • GCSE
  • Sociology AS/A level
• Travel and Tourism

Sociology GCSE and A Level

Sociology is the study of human behaviour and culture. Sociologists study how society works and encourages critical analysis of the structures and institutions in social life. Sociology is a very popular choice at both A level and GCSE with a large number of girls. A summary of these is detailed below with a fuller description given on the GSCE and A Level pages that follow.

We offer GCSE sociology from Y9 and follow the AQA course.

This means studying these topics in the first year:

• socialisation
• family
• education
• methods

In the second year we do

• crime and deviance
• social inequality
• mass media

 

Sociology is a concentric subject, which means that students will study many of the same topics as they go higher up the school, but they study them in more depth and with more theoretical analysis.

At AS the course topics are

• socialisation
• sociological identity - class, age, gender, ethnicity
• research methods
• family
• religion

At A2 the course topics are

education

social inequality

sociological theory

research methods