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George Stephenson High School • Longbenton Community College • Seaton Burn CollegeASSociologyQualification and exam board: AS/A2 GCE, AQAWhat will I learn?YEAR 1:For AS, you will study two units: Families and Households and Education andMethods. As part of the Families and Households, you will learn about thetrends within family life in the UK, different theoretical perspectives on the Familyand about the emergence of childhood. Within the Education and Methods unit,you will undertake the study of Education and how it is has changed. You willalso examine why some social groups do better than others within education. Aspart of this unit, you will also study research methods sociologists use and thestrengths and limitations of such techniques.Further informationThere is lots of useful information about Sociology and the topics taught on thefollowing websites: - www.sociology.org.uk - www.sociologyonline.co.ukYEAR 2:For A2, you will study two units: Beliefs in Society and Crime and Deviance andTheory and Methods. As part of Beliefs in Society, you will look at the placeof religion and science within society, whether religion prevents or causessocial change and examine religion in the postmodern age, thinking about theemergence of sects and cults and the extent of secularisation. Within the Crimeand Deviance and Theory and Methods unit, you will learn about theoriesrelating to which social groups are most likely to commit crimes and examinemedia representations of crime. You will also learn more about sociologicaltheories and evaluate their significance for the study of society today andconsider questions such as ‘Is sociology a science?’ and ‘Can sociological researchever be value free?’How will I be assessed?In Year 12, you will sit a one hour exam for Unit 1 (Families and Household) and atwo hour exam for Unit 2 (Education and Methods) in the summer exam series.In Year 13, you will sit a one and a half hour exam (Beliefs in Society) and a Unit 4paper (Crime and Deviance and Theory and Methods) in thesummer exam series. The paper for Unit 4 is 2 hours long.28