Key Stage 5
Year 12
Intent
"The function of Sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden" (Pierre Bourdieu)
Our ambition is for all students to feed their sociological imagination to understand the reciprocal relationship between the individual and society. Students will understand how culture shapes the identity they become and how much of what shapes them is socially constructed by the external forces they experience around them. This can be liberating as students begin to observe in their own lives how there are processes and forces at play in shaping their environment.
Our Sociology curriculum has been designed to enable our learners to:
- Develop essential knowledge and understanding of the various sociological disciplines and how they relate to each other
- Develop and demonstrate a deep appreciation of the skills, knowledge and understanding of methods used in sociological research
- Nurture competence and confidence in social stratification and how patterned inequalities persist, change, and affect social life
- Understand the links between sociology and society and the impact the subject has on everyday issues
- To understand the importance of identity, culture, power, social change and the important role we, as individuals and groups, play in this development.
- Provide opportunities for debate and to consider how their own experiences have shaped them
Learning Journey
Core Knowledge and Skills
- The relationship of the family to the social structure and social change, with particular reference to the economy and to state policies
- Changing patterns of marriage, cohabitation, separation, divorce, childbearing and the life course
- The role and functions of the education system
- Education and its relationship to the economy and to class structure
Enriched Knowledge
- Greater understanding of the education system and the challenges faced by schools
Key Vocabulary
- Cohabitation
- Nuclear
- Beanpole
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Sociology of personal life, and the diversity of contemporary family and household structures
- Gender roles, domestic labour and power relationships within the family in contemporary society
- Differential educational achievement of social groups by:
- Social class
- Gender
- Ethnicity in contemporary society
Enriched Knowledge
- Being able to link family and education to social groups
Key Vocabulary
- Triple shift
- Duel burden
- Hidden curriculum
Core Knowledge and Skills
- The nature of childhood
- Changes in the status of children in the family and society
- Relationships and processes within schools, with particular reference to;
- Teacher/pupil relationships
- Pupil identities and subcultures,
- The hidden curriculum
- The organisation of teaching and learning
Enriched Knowledge
- How childhood experiences can affect development in later life
Key Vocabulary
- Marketisation
- Status
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Demographic trends in the United Kingdom since 1900
- Birth rates, death rates, family size, life expectancy, ageing population
- Migration and globalisation.
- The significance of educational policies, including policies of
- Selection
- Marketisation and privatisation,
- Policies to achieve greater equality of opportunity or outcome, for an understanding of the structure, role, impact and experience of and access to education; the impact of globalisation on educational policy
Enriched Knowledge
- Understanding of the effect of politics on key institutions
Key Vocabulary
- Demography
- Marketisation
- Policy
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Quantitative and qualitative methods of research; research design
- Sources of data, including questionnaires, interviews, participant and non-participant observation, experiments, documents and official statistics
- The distinction between primary and secondary data, and between quantitative and qualitative data
- The relationship between positivism, interpretivism and sociological methods; the nature of ‘social facts’
- The theoretical, practical and ethical considerations influencing choice of topic, choice of method(s) and the conduct of research
Enriched Knowledge
- How research is carried out and why different perspectives are studied
Key Vocabulary
- Empirical
- Ethical
- Data
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Consensus, conflict, structural and social action theories
- The concepts of modernity and post-modernity in relation to sociological theory
- The nature of science and the extent to which Sociology can be regarded as scientific
- The relationship between theory and methods
- -Debates about subjectivity, objectivity and value freedom
- The relationship between Sociology and social policy.
Enriched Knowledge
- Debating skills on different approached
Key Vocabulary
- Consensus
- Subjective
- Modernity
Year 13
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Learning Journey
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