Sociology study guides

A complete overview of the OCR A-Level Sociology Families and relationships option (Component 1, Section B). Explains the functions of the family, family diversity and changing patterns, the domestic division of labour, power and childhood, and demographic change, with the perspectives, theorists and question types the option rewards.

A complete overview of OCR A-Level Sociology Component 1, Socialisation, culture and identity. Explains the structure of the paper, the compulsory Section A concepts (culture, socialisation, social control, the nature versus nurture debate and identity) and the Families and relationships option, and how the question types and assessment objectives work.

A complete overview of research methods in OCR A-Level Sociology Component 2. Explains positivism versus interpretivism, the practical, ethical and theoretical (PET) framework, the main primary and secondary methods, sampling and the key concepts of validity and reliability, and how the methods questions are examined alongside social inequality.

A complete overview of the social inequalities content in OCR A-Level Sociology Component 2. Explains the theories of stratification and the inequalities of class, gender, ethnicity and age, the key perspectives and the debates, and how the synoptic essays in Section B are examined.

A complete overview of the compulsory Component 3 topic, Globalisation and the digital social world, in OCR A-Level Sociology. Explains the theories of globalisation, global culture and identity, the digital revolution, the digital divide and surveillance, the key debates, and how Section A is examined.

A complete overview of the OCR A-Level Sociology Crime and deviance option (Component 3, Section B). Explains measuring crime, the functionalist, subcultural, interactionist, Marxist and realist theories, gender and crime, and globalisation, media and surveillance, with the perspectives and question types the option rewards.

A synoptic overview of sociological theory for OCR A-Level Sociology (H580). Explains functionalism, Marxism, feminism, interactionism, the modernity versus postmodernity debate, and the structure versus agency and value-freedom debates, and shows how these perspectives run through every component of the course.