Y11 Sociology

Below you will find information on what you have covered during your course and how you will be assessed.

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Social processes

Know Key sociological concepts - culture, socialisation, identity, cultural diversity
Debates over the acquisition of identity - nature/nurture debate including examples of feral children and cultural diversity
The process of socialisation – Explain agents of socialisation: family, education, media, peer group
Explain how agents of socialisation pass on culture and identity, for example: gender, class and ethnic identity

Family

what is a family?
nuclear family, extended family, reconstituted family, lone parent family, single sex family, cohabiting family, beanpole family,

conflict versus consensus debate on the role of the family
consensus view of Functionalism - Functionalist theory of the role and functions of family, such as Parsons and primary socialisation and stabilisation of adult personalities
conflict view of Marxism - Marxist theory of families serving the interests of capitalism, including the work of Zaretsky
conflict view of Feminism - Feminist critique of family as a patriarchal institution, including the work of Delphy and Leonard and Oakley and the conventional family
New Right views of family

Education

Stratification

Equality/inequality in relation to class, gender, ethnicity, age, disability and sexuality

evidence and examples should be used to demonstrate equality/inequality in contemporary UK drawn from the following areas: education, crime, income and wealth, health, family, work, media

factors which may influence class, gender, ethnicity, age, disability and sexuality
social construction of identity/roles, status
prejudice, discrimination
stereotyping, labelling
scapegoating
media representation
legislation
moral panics
sub-cultures
with specific reference to ethnicity: racism, institutional racism

Crime and Deviance

informal and formal social control and unwritten rules
agencies of informal social control: family, peer group, education, religion, media, sanctions, formal social control, role of the police and courts

Sociological theories and explanations of deviance and criminal behaviour (structural, subcultural, interactionist and feminist)

Merton and strain theory of crime
Subcultural theory: Albert Cohen and delinquent sub-cultures,
Feminism -social control, including the work of Heidensohn on female conformity in a male dominated society, women and poverty including the work of Carlen, chivalry thesis

patterns and trends of criminal behaviour
official statistics
victim and self-report studies
usefulness of sources of data on crime: dark figure of crime, unreported and unrecorded crime, police bias and labelling, moral panics, invisible crime

Title or Topic	Format	Length	Date
Paper 1 – Social Process – Family, Education, and RM	Combination of short answer and essay style questions.	50 minutes	Fri 26 Nov 1.40pm
Paper 2 – Social Structures – Crime, Social Stratification and RM	Combination of short answer and essay style questions.	50 minutes	Tue 30 Nov 1.40pm

To prepare for this assessment:

Use look, cover, check using the knowledge organisers on the back of your Unit workbooks.
It is also important to understand a range of sociological research/theorists and be able to describe their findings. (They are named above.)

Knowledge organisers.