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The Napier Press

PREPARING FOR

THE EXAMSWORKBOOK

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AQA A LEVEL SOCIOLOGY BOOK TWO

Preparing for the Exams

The Getting Started activity has a number of points to help you prepare for your exams. The first thing to do is to organise your class notes, activities and homework assignments. The three grids below provide checklists to help you complete this task. Tick the boxes when you have completed each section.

1

Getting Started (page 250)



Chapter 1 Checklist

Topic Homework

1. Theories of religion

2. Religion and social change

3. Secularisation

4. Religion, renewal and choice

5. Religion in a global context

6. Organisations, movements and members

Notes Activities

Chapter 2 Checklist

1. Functionalist, strain and subcultural theories

2. Interactionism and labelling theory

3. Class, power and crime

4. Realist theories of crime

5. Gender, crime and justice

6. Ethnicity, crime and justice

HomeworkNotes Activities

7. Crime and the media

Topic

7. Ideology and science

8. Globalisation, green crime, human rights and state crime

9. Control, punishment and victims

2



Chapter 3 Checklist

1. Quantitative research methods

2. Qualitative research methods

3. Sociology and science

4. Objectivity and values in research

5. Functionalism

6. Marxism

HomeworkNotes Activities

7. Feminist theories

Topic

8. Action theories

9. Globalisation, modernity and postmodernity

10. Sociology and social policy

Revision grid for C

hapter 1

Part 3 of the G

etting Started activity involves m

aking a list of the main issues covered in each Topic. U

se the grid below to com

plete this part of the activity for each topic in C

hapter 2.

Topic

1. Theories of

religion

Main issues

2. Religion

and social

change

3. Secularisation

Debates

Key concepts

3



4



Topi

c

4. R

elig

ion,

re

new

al

and

choi

ce

Mai

n is

sues

5. R

elig

ion

in

a g

loba

l

co

ntex

t

6. O

rgan

isatio

ns,

m

ovem

ents

and

mem

bers

Deb

ates

Key

con

cept

s

7. Id

eolo

gy

and

scie

nce

5



Revision grid for C

hapter 2

Part 3 of the G

etting Started activity involves m

aking a list of the main issues covered in each Topic. U

se the grid below to com

plete this part of the activity for each topic in C

hapter 3.

Topic

1. Functionalist,

strain and

subcultural

theories

Main issues

2. Interactionism

and labelling

theory

3. Class, pow

er

and crime

Debates

Key concepts

6



Topi

c

4. R

ealis

t

th

eorie

s

of c

rime

Mai

n is

sues

5. G

ende

r,

crim

e an

d

just

ice

6. E

thni

city

,

cr

ime

and

ju

stic

e

Deb

ates

Key

con

cept

s

7


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Topic

7. Crim

e and

the media

Main issues

8. Globalisation,

green crim

e,

human rights

& state crim

e

9. Control,

punishm

ent

and victims

Debates

Key concepts

8



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isio

n gr

id fo

r Cha

pter

3

Par

t 3 o

f the

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ting

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rted

activ

ity in

volv

es m

akin

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list o

f the

mai

n is

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ered

in e

ach

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se th

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id b

elow

to c

ompl

ete

this

par

t of t

he

activ

ity fo

r eac

h to

pic

in C

hapt

er 4

.

Topi

c

1. Q

uant

itativ

e

rese

arch

met

hods

Mai

n is

sues

2. Q

ualit

ativ

e

rese

arch

met

hods

3. S

ocio

logy

and

scie

nce

Deb

ates

Key

con

cept

s

9



Topic

4. Objectivity

and values

in research

Main issues

5. Functionalism

6. Marxism

Debates

Key concepts

10



Topi

c

7. F

emin

ist

th

eorie

s

Mai

n is

sues

8. A

ctio

n

theo

ries

9. G

loba

lisat

ion,

mod

erni

ty

and

po

stm

oder

nity

Deb

ates

Key

con

cept

s

10. S

ocio

logy

and

soci

al

po

licy

11



The assessment objectives (page 251-252)

Complete the table below.

A01

Name Ways of demonstrating this assessment objective

A02

A03

Preparing for the A level exams (pages 252-256)

A level paper 1

Complete the table below with the details of the questions on A level Paper 1.

Question & Topic

01Education

Marks CommandWord(s)

Time Points to remember



02Education

03Education

12

Question & Topic

04 Education



13



05 Methods in Context

06 Theory and Methods

Now try the A level Paper 1 practice paper on page 257 of your textbook. Read pages 260-263 for advice on how to complete these questions.

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A level paper 2

Complete the table below with the details of the questions on A level Paper 2 (use Book One for information on Families and Households). Note that the question numbers below correspond to those on the real A level exam paper.

Question & Topic



04Families and Households





Question & Topic



13Beliefs in Society






A level paper 3

Complete the table below with the details of the questions on A level Paper 3.

Question & Topic

01Crime and Deviance








Question &Topic




05Theory and Methods

06Theory and Methods

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