Sociology A-Level Part 2

This course is the follow-up to Part 1, and will continue to focus on the issues that shape our society – like identity, inequality, power, education, crime and culture. You’ll explore how social groups interact and how family, media and education impact opportunities, behaviour and beliefs. This course builds valuable skills in critical thinking, analysis and argument construction — important in everyday life and widely valued if you want to work in sectors like education, social work, journalism, criminology or public policy.

This course contains five lessons that follow on from Part 1:

  1. Beliefs in Society 1 (Religion, science, and ideology, religion as a force for social stability or change, religious organisations)
  2. Beliefs in Society 2 (New religious movements, gender feminism and religion, ethnicity, age and class, secularisation)
  3. Crime and Deviance 1 (Social control, deviance, crime, radical criminology, labelling theory, crime statistics)
  4. Crime and Deviance 2 (Ethnicity, gender and crime, social class and crime, crime in a global world, the criminal justice system)
  5. Revision – Theory and Methods

Entry Requirements: Level 2 English, plus Sociology A-Level Part 1

Assignments: Five written assignments.

Exams: Three – each are 2 hours long.

Prison Support Requirements: Support completion and submission of assignments. Organize and invigilate exams.

Tutor Support: Yes

What’s Next? A range of possible progression options, including Open University Access Module Y032 People, Work and Society.

Find Out More: From NEC here

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