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Sociology is a challenging and exciting subject. Its aim is to understand
how societies work and to study and explain how society makes us who we are.
In studying Sociology, you will be actively involved in exploring and asking questions
about the society in which you live, such as:
How does money help people do better at school?
Why do people turn to crime?
Who controls the media?
Is there such a thing as a ‘typical’ family?
What gives people power in our society?
Studying Sociology offers you the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of society
and to make sense of your own experiences within it. It observes the day to day
experiences of people in groups e.g. workers, criminal gangs, or children and seeks to
explain them.
You will learn basic ‘Perspectives’ or ways of looking at society: Consensus and Conflict
theories that attempt to explain how societies work.
You will learn about the different methods of data collection: experiments, questionnaires,
interviews; their advantages and disadvantages and how they have been used in
sociological studies.
You will also develop the necessary skills to enable you to assess different views and
reach conclusions about society, based on a careful consideration of evidence.
Sociology will help you make sense of society and give you new ways of seeing the social
world around you. You will question aspects of it you had previously taken for granted.
Sociology GCSE will provide you with ‘tools’ which allow you to become a better informed
and more socially aware member of society.
