Ryton Students - Departments – Sociology – Overview

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Year 12
Topic Covered	When	Assessment	Additional opportunities for learning
Unit 1 Families and Households Defining the family Is the family universal? What is the family for? Critical approaches to family (including Marxism, Feminism, Critical Psychiatry)	Sept to Feb half-term Units 1 and 2 run concurrently Sept half-term November half-term	All 3 Modules will be externally assessed in May and June 2005 through 3 exams. Unit 1 and Unit 2 represent up to 17.5% of A Level marks. Unit 3 represents up to 15% of A Level marks. See http://www.aqa.org.uk/qual/gceasa/soc_assess.html For past papers	Regular reading of Guardian on Wednesday with Society section Online at www.guardian.co.uk/society regular listening to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’ with Laurie Taylor www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/thinkingallowed Regular reading of Sociology Review, back issues available in school library.
The New Right Marriage Cohabitation and Divorce Family Diversity Conjugal Roles Childhood The Dark side of family life. Unit 2 Education What is education? What role does it play in society? Education in the UK Marxism and education Functionalism and education Marketisation and education Class and educational attainment Gender and educational attainment Ethnicity and educational attainment Educational policies including vocational education and higher eduaction	January half-term		Regular reading of the Guardian’s education section http://education.guardian.co.uk/ regular reading of the Times education supplement http://www.tes.co.uk/ Regular reading of Sociology Review, back issues available in school library.

Year 13
Topic Covered	When	Assessment	Additional opportunities for learning
Unit 4 World Sociology What is Development? How can development be measured? Theories of development: Modernisation Theory Dependency Theory Neo populist Theory New Right Theory Industrialisation and urbanisation Gender and development World trade TNC’s and development Globalisation Aid and debt Population changes Development and the environment Education and health Development and inequality	September to February half-term Units 4 and 6 run concurrently. September to February half-term February half-term to Easter	All 3 modules will be externally assessed in May and June 2007 through 3 exams. Unit 4 represents up to 15% of marks, unit 5 represents up to 15% of marks and unit 6 represents up to 20% of marks. See http://www.aqa.org.uk/qual/gceasa/soc_assess.html For past papers	http://www.newint.org/ http://www.un.org/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/ www.guardian.co.uk/ regular listening to BBC Radio 4 as well as keeping up to date with world news.
Unit 6 Crime and Deviance	From Sep to Feb half-term
Unit 5 Theory and Methods	From Feb half-term to May half-term