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Revision as of 13:11, 4 August 2016
The syllabus contains content you will be tested on in your study of sociology.
Cambridge International AS Level
Unit 1: The family
-The distinction between households and families and between types of families: lone parent, nuclear and extended.
-Changes in family and household structure and their relationship to industrialisation, urbanisation and globalisation.
-Family diversity according to class, ethnicity, religion, family size, marital status, age and family life cycle.
-The debate about the postulated universality of the nuclear family.
-Different theories about the relationship between the family and the economy
-Changes and continuities in family functions; debates about the relationship between the family and the state.
-Roles and responsibilities within the family, including the roles of parents, children and grandparents.
-Conjugal roles and debates about gender equality within the family. (Feminism)
-Changing patterns of marriage, cohabitation, civil partnership, separation, divorce and child bearing; the causes and consequences of these changes.
-The impact of family life on individual members.
-The social significance of divisions based on age groups.
-Childhood as a concept that is socially constructed.
-Class, ethnicity and gender as factors affecting the experience of childhood.
-Debates about the social position of the elderly in different societies.
Unit 2: Theory and methods
The sociological perspective
Socialisation and the creation of social identity
Methods of research
The relationship between theory and methods