Worksheet / notes summarising the social class differences in attainment or achievement and specifically why the working class underachieve and the middle class overachieve with external and internal explanations

Worksheet / notes summarising the Marxist perspective on education

This worksheet covers the Postmodern theory of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Davie’s believing without belonging, Hervieu-Leger’s spiritual shopper, Bauman’s religion in postmodernity, Lyon’s Jesus in Disneyland and Giddens on reflexivity. It also includes Heelas on the New age in postmodernity.

This worksheet covers New Religious Movements for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Baker and his features of NRMs, Wallis’ threefold typography and Stark and Bainbridge’s distinction between cults and sects.

This worksheet covers the definition and examples for religious organisation. It also has a table for students to complete on religious categorisations to check their understanding for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology.

This worksheet covers age and religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes the reasons why older people are more likely to be religious including disengagement, religious socialisation and ill health and death. It also includes why younger people are less religious including the declining attraction of religion, the expanding spiritual marketplace, the privatisation of religion, declining religious education and the secular spirituality.

This worksheet covers religious fundamentalism for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes definitions by Almond and Bruce as well as theories by Bruce on religion as a form of cultural defence, Giddens on globalisation and fundamentalism, Castells on responses to postmodernity and Huntington’s on the clash of civilisations.

This worksheet covers the distinction between religion and science for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It tries to examine which is ‘better’ or ‘correct’ in the debate for modern societies. It includes theories by Popper on what is science, Kuhn on paradigm shifts and scientific revolutions, Horton on open and closed belief systems and the social influences on science.

This worksheet covers the future of childhood and questions regarding whether childhood is disappearing, whether it has improved and whether we have a more child centred approach today. It covers the march of progress view, toxic childhood, the conflict approach, the disappearance of childhood approach and childhood in postmodernity.

This worksheet covers the social construction of childhood including the modern western notions of childhood, social differences in children in the same society, cross cultural differences and historical differences in childhood.

This worksheet covers the advantages and disadvantage of an ageing population within the families and households topic in the UK

This worksheet covers Marxist perspectives on on families and households including Engel’s, Althusser and Zaretsky and the unit of consumption theory.

This worksheet covers family diversity which is occurring in British families and households. It is split into two sections covering modernism on family diversity (Functionalism, New Right, Chester’s Neo Conventional Family and The Rapoports) and postmodernism on family diversity (The Individualisation Thesis, The Connectedness Thesis and Life Cycle Diversity).

This worksheet covers New Right perspectives on families and households including Murray’s dependency culture as well as the ‘solution’ they provide

This worksheet covers interviews used in sociology as part of research methods. It covers structured, semi structured and unstructured interviews

This worksheet covers the Marxist theory of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Karl Marx including the ‘opium of the people’, Althusser’s ideological state apparatus and Lenin’s spiritual gin conception.

This worksheet covers the Functionalist theory of religion for the Beliefs in Society topic in A Level Sociology. It includes theories by Durkheim’s theory of Totemism, Parsons’ universal guideline for human action, Malinowski’s life crisis and Bellah’s theory of civil religion.

This worksheet covers the reasons why marriage is declining in the UK and why cohabitation is increasing as part of the families and households topic in A Level Sociology

Worksheet / notes summarising the gender differences in subject choice with specific focus on external and internal explanations

This worksheet covers the research process in sociology including the difference between an aim and hypothesis, types of social surveys, open and closed questions, pilot studies, sampling etc.