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Sociology - H580
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Free Sociology - H580 study notes for Cambridge OCR A Level students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Introducing socialisation, culture and identity
Component 01 Section A: Introducing socialisation, culture and identity
What is culture?
What is socialisation? Agencies of socialisation
Nature/nurture debate and agencies of social control
What is identity?
Families and relationships
Youth subcultures
Component 01 Section B: Options
Option 1 Families and relationships: How diverse are modern families?
Option 1 Families and relationships: Changing roles and relationships within families and households
Option 2 Youth subcultures: How and why youth culture and subcultures are formed
Option 2 Youth subcultures: Why young people participate in deviant subcultures
Option 3 Media: Representations of social groups in the media
Option 3 Media: Media effects on audiences
Component 02: Researching and understanding social inequalities
Section A: Theory and methods — positivism, interpretivism and key research concepts
Section A: Stages of the research process and social policy
Section A: Sampling, access and ethics
Section A: Research methods and mixed methods in the context of social inequalities
Section B: Patterns and trends in social inequality and difference
Section B: Sociological explanations of social inequality and difference
Media
Research methods and researching social inequalities
Understanding social inequalities
Component 03 Section A: Globalisation and the digital social world
Defining globalisation and developments in digital communication
Sociological theories applied to digital forms of communication
Impact of digital communication on identity, inequalities and relationships
Impact of digital communication on culture
Component 03 Section B Option 1: Crime and deviance
How are crime and deviance defined and measured?
What are the patterns and trends in crime?
How can crime and deviance be explained?
How can crime and deviance be reduced?
Debates in contemporary society
Crime and deviance
Component 03 Section B Option 2: Education
What is the role of education in society?
What are the patterns and trends of educational inequalities?
How can differential educational achievement be explained?
How has the UK education system changed?
Component 03 Section B Option 3: Religion, belief and faith
How are religion, belief and faith defined and measured?
What is the role of religion, belief and faith?
What are the patterns and trends of religion, belief and faith?
Is secularisation occurring?
Exam skills: source questions and extended response
Short and medium tariff source-based questions (Section A)
Applying theories, concepts and evidence (AO2)
Analysis and evaluation: arguments, judgements, conclusions (AO3)
Levels of response essays in Section B
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