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Topic
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Knowledge
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Skills
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Prior knowledge
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Year 12
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Autumn 1
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Family
Education
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Different family types
Introduction to perspectives
Changing family patterns
Marriage, divorce, cohabitation
Class differences in educational achievement – cultural and material deprivation (external) vs internal factors (labelling, streaming, self fulfilling prophecy)
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Interpreting statistics
Historical research
How to write PEAE paragraphs
How to use studies to critically evaluate theories
How to answer the short mark questions
How to structure 20 mark questions
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Reading and interpreting graphs and charts
Basic knowledge of the education system
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Autumn 2
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Family
Education
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Childhood – historical and global
Gender roles in the family
Demography
Ethnic differences in achievement – external vs internal factors
Gender differences in educational achievement
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10 mark questions – how to do the analysis part
How to answer “change” questions
How to use statistics to come up with conclusions
How to structure 30 mark questions
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Knowledge from geography about child poverty cross culturally
Knowledge from RS re: Islam traditions and how they can impact on family life
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Spring 1
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Family
Education
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Modernism vs postmodernism
Families and Social Policy
Theorists perspectives on education
Educational policies and inequality
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How to embed theory into answers to locate the argument in context
How to use the item effectively
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Knowledge from Autumn term re: what postmodernism is
What Functionalism, Marxism and Feminism are from the family topic in the Autumn term
What is policy? (from term 1 family topic)
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Spring 2
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Research Methods
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How to choose a research method – factors affecting choice (ethics, practical, theoretical)
How to research in education
Experiments
Questionnaires
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Further support for hitting the higher marks – top band essays
How to design your own study in Sociology
How to answer the Methods in Context Question
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Knowledge from first term re: positivism and interpretivism and how they see society
Studies from the education topic (e.g. Rosenthal and Jacobson) to apply to research methods
Basic knowledge of experimental design from GCSE science
Knowledge of closed/open questions
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Summer 1
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Research Methods
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How to design an interview
Different types of observation
Secondary sources of research (e.g. journals, prior research etc)
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Methodological critique
Application of ethics
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Relative importance of different secondary sources, from History
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Summer 2
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Intro to Beliefs
Intro to Crime
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Research into a cult/sect
What is the purpose of religion?
Functionalist beliefs re: religion
Marxist beliefs re: religion
Basic stats on crime re: different groups
Definitions of crime
Basic perspectives’ views of crime – Functionalist, Strain and subcultural theories
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Research skills – being critical re: sources
How to “recycle” evaluation where appropriate
Identifying ideogical bias
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General knowledge e.g. what’s been on the news
Knowledge of Functionalism and Marxism from term 1
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Year 13
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Autumn 1
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Beliefs
Crime
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Religion causing social change
Secularisation
The revitalisation of religion – NRMs and New Age
Marxist views on crime
Power and Crime
Realism – Left and Right
Gender and Crime
Ethnicity and Crime
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Extraction – how to read high level information and take the important bits from it
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Basic knowledge on secularisation from family topic
Knowledge on labelling theory from education topic
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Autumn 2
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Beliefs
Crime
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Religion around the world – how is it linked to development?
Fundamentalism
Cults, sects, denominations, churches
Ideology, science and religion
Crime and the media – criminals and victims
Globalisation and crime – green crime, state crime, human rights
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Improving writing – how to embed more sociological knowledge
Papers 1, 2 and 3 knowledge and structure
Exam timings
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Knowledge of world religions from RS
Knowledge of individualist and collectivist countries from Geography and some basic knowledge of developing countries
Green crime has a link to geography
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Spring 1
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Beliefs revision
Crime revision
Research Methods
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Revision of beliefs – mindmaps and knowledge
Revision of crime – mindmaps and knowledge
Recap year 1 research methods
Qualitative vs quantitative methods
Is Sociology a science?
Should sociology be value free
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Planning in the exam
Chain of events and how to map one for 10 markers (recap)
How to revise Sociology effectively
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Revision skills from GCSE
Analysis questions from year 1
Recap year 1 methods
Science GCSE – what makes something a science?
Different perspectives from year 1
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Spring 2
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Research Methods
Revision
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Marxism
Feminism
Action theories
Globalisation, modernity and postmodernity
Sociology and Social Policy
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Critical thinking
Balancing essays – pros vs cons
Exam skills recap
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Recap perspectives from year 1
Recap postmodernity from family topic and religion topic
Recap social policy from education and family
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Summer 1
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Revision
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All content
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All exam skills
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Recap everything
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