Sociology (9699)

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免費的Sociology (9699)學習筆記,專為Cambridge International AS Level學生準備。下列每個章節都涵蓋一個重點主題,附有例題與練習提示,可在 thinka 應用程式中延伸練習。

Paper 1 – Socialisation, identity and methods of research

  • Social identity and change

  • Types of data, methods and research design

  • Approaches to sociological research

  • Research issues

Paper 2 – The Family

  • Gender equality and experiences of family life

  • Age and family life

Socialisation and the creation of social identity (Paper 1)

  • The process of learning and socialisation

  • Agencies of socialisation and social control

  • Social control, conformity and resistance

  • Structure and agency: structuralist and interactionist views

  • Deviance and non-conformity

  • Social identity: class, gender, ethnicity and age

  • Changing identities, globalisation and hybridity

Paper 3 – Education

  • Education and society

  • Education and social mobility

  • Influences on the curriculum

  • Intelligence and educational attainment

  • Social class and educational attainment

  • Ethnicity and educational attainment

  • Education and inequality

Methods of research (Paper 1)

  • Types of data: primary, secondary, quantitative, qualitative

  • Secondary sources: official statistics, documents, digital and media content

  • Quantitative methods: questionnaires, structured interviews, experiments, content analysis

  • Qualitative methods: observation, unstructured and group interviews

  • Stages of research design, sampling and operationalisation

  • Research approaches: case studies, surveys, ethnography, longitudinal and mixed methods

  • Positivism, interpretivism and the science debate

  • Research issues: theoretical, practical and ethical considerations

Paper 4 – Globalisation

  • Key debates, concepts and perspectives

  • Contemporary issues

Theories of the family and social change (Paper 2)

  • Functionalist and Marxist perspectives on the family

  • Feminist responses to functionalist and Marxist accounts

  • Changing patterns of marriage, cohabitation, divorce and separation

  • Family and household forms and dimensions of diversity

  • The nuclear family debate: New Right and postmodernist views

  • The state and social policy as influences on the family

Paper 4 – Media

  • Ownership and control of media

  • Media representation and effects

Family roles and changing relationships (Paper 2)

  • Gender equality and power in the family

  • Conjugal roles: housework, childcare and emotion work

  • Positive and negative experiences of family life

  • The social construction of childhood

  • Grandparents, life expectancy and the family

  • Changing concepts of motherhood and fatherhood

Paper 4 – Religion

  • Religion and social order

  • The influence of religion

Exam skills (Paper 1 and Paper 2)

  • Short-answer and 'give two explanations' questions

  • Evaluating a research method or a sociological theory

  • Explaining and arguing against a quoted sociological view

  • Writing the Section B essay: AO1, AO2 and AO3

  • Command words: describe, explain, evaluate, give

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