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'AS' Sociology Teaching Guide
Neil Renton, Sarah Palmer, Mark Kirby, Helen Taylor

Contents:

• Introduction
• Lesson Plan
• Assessment Form

'AS' Module 1

• Unit 1 Families and Households: Universality of the Family
• Family and Industrialisation
• Domestic Division of Labour
• Childhood
• Marriage and Divorce
• Family Diversity and Post-modernism
• Darkside of the Family and Interactionism
• Social Policy and the Family
• Conflict approaches to the family: Marxism and Feminism
• Consensus approaches to the family: Functionalism and New Right
• Unit 2 Health: Definitions of Health: Biomedical versus social models of health
• Inequalities in Health: Ethnicity
• Inequalities in Health: Gender
• Inequalities in Health: Social Class
• Access to Health Care
• Role of the Medical Profession and Health Care Professionals
• Mental Illness
• Unit 3 Mass Media: Ownership and Control
• Selecting and Presenting the News
• Media Representations of Ethnicity
• Media Representations of Gender
• Media Representations of Age, Class, Disability and Sexuality
• Media Effects
• Media and Violence Postmodernism and the Media

'AS' Module 2

• Unit 1 Education: Class and Differential Educational Attainment
• Gender and Differential Educational Attainment
• Ethnicity and Differential Educational Attainment
• Theories of Education
• Further Theories
• Education and Social Policy
• Unit 2 Wealth, Poverty and Welfare: The Development of the UK Welfare State Since WW2
• Contemporary Patterns of Welfare Provision
• Welfare Regimes
• Inequality and Welfare
• Welfare and Social Control
• Defining and Measuring Poverty
• Contrasting Explanations of Poverty
• The Distribution of Income and Wealth
• Unit 3 Work and Leisure: Management theories and work organisation
• Work satisfaction, alienation and conflict
• Implications of technological changes
• Unemployment
• Leisure and Identity

'AS' Module 3

• Theory and Methods: Key ideas in Sociological Research
• Types of Data
• Primary Methods 1
• Primary Methods 2
• Ethnographic Methods
• Secondary Sources
• Key Skills

Authors:

Neil Renton, is Head of Sociology and Psychology at a Grammar School. He has written a recent revision guide and has published articles in the ATSS Journal. He has examined for the AQA AS level examination.

Sarah Palmer, is Head of Sociology and Law at a Sixth Form College. She has contributed to two recent revision guides and has examined for the AQA AS level examination.

Mark Kirby, has taught Sociology for 16 years at various colleges. He is the author/co-author of 10 Sociology books.

Helen Taylor, has taught Sociology for past five years. She has undertaken a wide range of empirical research into services to prisoners, disabled people and informal carers.

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