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GCSE Sociology.
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Society, culture and key concepts
Society, culture and key concepts
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Theme 1: Introducing sociology
Theme 2: Researching society
Theme 3: Families
Theme 4: Education
Theme 5: Crime and deviance
Theme 6: Social inequality and power
01Theme 1: Introducing sociology
6 lessons · 6 units
Unit 01
Society, culture and key concepts
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Unit 02
Nature or nurture? How we acquire identity
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Unit 03
Socialisation and its agents
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Unit 04
Learning gender, class and ethnic identity
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Unit 05
Consensus and conflict: the main perspectives
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Unit 06
Durkheim, Marx and Weber: the founders of sociology
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02Theme 2: Researching society
12 lessons · 12 units
Unit 01
Planning a piece of research
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Unit 02
Types of data: primary and secondary, qualitative and quantitative
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Unit 03
Reliability, validity and representativeness
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Unit 05
Questionnaires and surveys
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Official statistics and other secondary sources
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Practical issues: time, cost and access
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Unit 11
Ethical issues in research
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Unit 12
Interpreting graphs, charts and tables
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03Theme 3: Families
14 lessons · 14 units
Unit 01
What is a family? Types of family
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Unit 02
Families around the world
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Unit 03
Family diversity and social change
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Unit 04
The functionalist view of the family
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Unit 05
The Marxist view of the family
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Unit 06
Feminist views of the family
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Unit 07
The New Right and the traditional family
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Unit 08
Conjugal roles and the domestic division of labour
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Unit 09
Decisions, money, dual careers and leisure
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Unit 10
The symmetrical family: how family relationships have changed
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Unit 11
Parents, children and generations
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Unit 12
Divorce since 1945: patterns and reasons
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Unit 13
The consequences of divorce
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Unit 14
Criticisms of the family and its dark side
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04Theme 4: Education
12 lessons · 12 units
Unit 01
The functionalist view of education
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Unit 02
The Marxist view: education and capitalism
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Unit 03
The feminist view of education
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Unit 04
Types of school and other ways of learning
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Unit 05
Patterns of educational achievement
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Unit 06
Social class and achievement
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Unit 07
Parental choice and competition between schools
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Unit 08
Gender and achievement
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Unit 09
Ethnicity and achievement
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Unit 10
Labelling, teacher expectations and the self-fulfilling prophecy
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Unit 11
Streaming, setting, banding and mixed ability
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05Theme 5: Crime and deviance
13 lessons · 13 units
Unit 01
What are crime and deviance?
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Unit 04
The dark figure of crime
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Unit 05
Who commits crime? Patterns by class, gender, ethnicity and age
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Unit 06
Functionalist explanations: the functions of crime and anomie
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Unit 07
Subcultural explanations: delinquent subcultures
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Unit 08
Marxist explanations: crime, power and the law
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Unit 09
Labelling and the deviant career
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Unit 10
Moral panics and the media
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Unit 12
Ethnicity and crime
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Unit 13
Crime in public debate
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06Theme 6: Social inequality and power
13 lessons · 13 units
Unit 01
Social stratification: the functionalist theory
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Unit 02
Marx: class conflict and exploitation
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Unit 03
Weber: class, status and party
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Unit 04
Life chances, power and inequality
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Unit 05
Social class and life chances
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Unit 06
Gender inequality and patriarchy
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Unit 07
Ethnicity and inequality
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Unit 08
Inequality by age, disability, sexuality and religion
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Unit 09
Defining and measuring poverty
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Unit 10
Explaining poverty: culture, the underclass and social exclusion
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Unit 11
Tackling poverty: welfare, unemployment and globalisation
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Unit 12
Power and authority
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Unit 13
Power and politics in the UK
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