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SOCIOLOGY

EXAM BOARD: CAIE

What does the course involve:

In a rapidly changing world, Sociology offers students the opportunity not only to explore the processes that are shaping current trends, but also to develop an understanding of the complexity and diversity of human societies and their continuities with the past. The study of sociology stimulates awareness of contemporary social, cultural and political issues, and focuses on the importance of examining these issues in a rigorous, reasoned and analytical way.

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FOR STUDENTS 

INTERESTED IN:

  • The part you play in your “communities” - family, school, interest groups

  • Current news items

  • Social issues and concerns

Year 12: Paper 1 - Socialisation, identity and methods of research (1 hour 30 mins)

  • Socialisation and the creation of social identity

  • The process of learning and socialisation

  • Social control, conformity and resistance

  • Social identity and change

  • Methods of research

  • Types of data, methods and research design

  • Approaches to sociological research

  • Research issues

Year 12: Paper 2 - The Family Theories of the family and social change (1 hour 30 mins)

  • Perspectives on the role of the family

  • Diversity and social change

  • Family roles and changing relationships

  • Gender equality and experiences of family life

  • Age and family life

Year 13: 

Students will take 2 papers:

  • Paper 3: Education (1 hour 15 mins)

  • Paper 4: Globalisation and the media (1 hour 45 mins)

POSSIBLE 

CAREER PATHS:

  • Social Work

  • Local/Central Government

  • Personnel

  • Law

  • Teaching

  • The Media

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