Sociology study guides

A deep-dive AQA A-Level Sociology guide to the Beliefs in Society topic. Covers theories of religion, the relationship between religion and social change, the secularisation debate, religious organisations and movements, and the religiosity of different social groups, with the debates and exam patterns AQA repeats.

A deep-dive AQA A-Level Sociology guide to the Crime and Deviance topic. Covers functionalist, subcultural, Marxist, realist and labelling theories, gender, ethnicity and crime, crime and the media, globalisation, green and state crime, and crime control, prevention and punishment, with the debates and exam patterns AQA repeats.

A deep-dive AQA A-Level Sociology guide to the Education topic. Covers the role and functions of education, class, gender and ethnic differences in achievement (external and internal factors), in-school processes such as labelling and subcultures, educational policy and marketisation, and the Methods in Context question, with the perspectives and exam patterns AQA repeats.

A deep-dive AQA A-Level Sociology guide to the Families and Households topic. Covers perspectives on the family, couples and the domestic division of labour, childhood, demography, family diversity and changing patterns of marriage and divorce, and the impact of social policy, with the debates and exam patterns AQA repeats.

A deep-dive AQA A-Level Sociology guide to the synoptic Theory and Methods strand. Covers research methods (experiments, surveys, observation, secondary data), positivism and interpretivism, whether sociology is a science, value freedom, the structural and social action theories, and the relationship between sociology and social policy, with the exam patterns AQA repeats.