Sociology

Conflict vs consensus

Changing sociological ideas

Durkheim: context and contribution

Marx: context and contribution

Weber: context and contribution

Feminist perspectives overview

Functionalist perspectives overview

Interactionist perspectives overview

Marxist perspectives overview

Core areas interrelationships

Research methods in context

Key terms and concepts

Theory comparison skills

Contemporary social issues debates

Qualitative vs quantitative approaches

Mixed methods approach

Official statistics use

Evidence interpretation skills

Family functions

Parsons: primary socialisation

Parsons: stabilisation of adults

Functionalist views of families

Feminist views of families

Marxist views of families

Family forms in the UK

Global family diversity

Rapoports: family diversity

Conjugal roles: joint

Conjugal roles: segregated

Domestic division of labour

Decision making in families

Money management in families

Dual career families

Child rearing and roles

Leisure and family life

Pre-industrial families

Industrial families

Contemporary family change

Willmott & Young: symmetrical family

Stratified diffusion

Parenting quality debates

Teenager–adult relationships

Care of elderly and disabled

Arranged marriage

Isolation and idealisation critiques

Loss of functions debate

Kinship network decline

Women’s status in families

Marital breakdown and dysfunction

Zaretsky: families and capitalism

Delphy & Leonard: feminist critique

Divorce trends since 1945

Divorce law changes

Changing social attitudes to divorce

Secularisation and divorce

Women’s status and divorce

Divorce consequences: adults

Divorce consequences: children

Lone parent families rise

Functions of education

Economy and workforce needs

Social mobility role

Social cohesion role

School types: primary vs secondary

School types: state vs private

Alternative provision: home schooling

Alternative provision: de-schooling

Durkheim: norms and values

Parsons: achieved status

Meritocracy and schools

Education and capitalism link

Bowles & Gintis: correspondence principle

Critiques of correspondence principle

Educational achievement factors

Class and achievement

Gender and achievement

Ethnicity and achievement

Halsey: class inequalities

Ball: parental choice and competition

School processes and achievement

Streaming

Setting

Mixed ability teaching

Labelling in schools

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Interactionist school perspectives

Ball: teacher expectations

Willis: counter-school cultures

Crime vs deviance concepts

Social construction of crime

Explanations: anomie

Explanations: labelling

Structural theories of crime

Subcultural theories of crime

Interactionist theories of crime

Merton: causes of crime

Becker: labelling and crime

Formal social control

Informal social control

Sanctions and unwritten rules

Perspectives on social control

Heidensohn: female conformity

Social class and offending

Gender and offending

Ethnicity and offending

Age and offending

Public debates: violent crime

Public debates: sentencing

Public debates: young offenders

Public debates: prisons

Public debates: media coverage

Albert Cohen: delinquent subcultures

Carlen: women, crime and poverty

Crime data sources

Official crime statistics

Patterns and trends in crime figures

Dark figure of crime

Perspectives on crime data use

Functionalist stratification theory

Rewards and role allocation

Davis & Moore: stratification

Feminist critiques of functionalism

Marxist critiques of functionalism

Socio-economic class divisions

Functionalist views of class

Feminist views of class

Marxist views of class

Marx: class theory

Weber: class and market situation

Life chances factors

Class and life chances

Gender and life chances

Ethnicity and life chances

Sexuality and life chances

Age and life chances

Disability and life chances

Religion and belief factors

Devine: affluent worker revisited

Poverty interpretations

Culture of poverty

Material deprivation

Government anti-poverty policies

Unemployment and poverty

Globalisation and poverty

Townsend: relative deprivation

Murray: underclass and New Right

Power and authority types

Traditional authority

Charismatic authority

Rational-legal authority

Formal vs informal power

Perspectives on power and authority

Weber: power and authority

Power relationships factors

Class and power relationships

Gender and power relationships

Sexuality and power relationships

Race and power relationships

Age and power relationships

Disability and power relationships

Religion and belief influences

Walby: patriarchy

Research aims and hypotheses

Pilot studies

Sampling methods

Data analysis process

Questionnaires

Interviews

Observations

Qualitative methods strengths/limits

Quantitative methods strengths/limits

Mixed methods usefulness

Qualitative data types

Quantitative data types

Official statistics

Non-official statistics

Primary sources of data

Secondary sources of data

Graphs and charts interpretation

Tables and diagrams interpretation

Patterns and trends in data

Practical issues: time

Practical issues: cost

Practical issues: access

Ethical issues: consent

Ethical issues: confidentiality

Ethical issues: harm and protection