Year 9
This taster to GCSE Sociology will cover subjects like:
FERAL CHILDREN - Students discover the life of the Feral Child. What is it like not to be socialised by people, but by animals?
UNSOCIALISED CHILDREN - what happens when people are poorly socialised?
WHAT MAKES US MALE OR FEMALE – Why are we male or female? A look at how we are socialised into our gender and the results of this socialisation.
FOOTBALL - Football as a social construction. Looking at how football can be used to bring people together or make divisions in society.
BIG BROTHER - What does the Big Brother show tell us about society as a whole? What does the term big brother mean?
Year 10
Sociology GCSE
Sociology is the study of societies, how they work and how they change. It shows us how societies shape our ideas and behaviour and how we interact with each other.
In GCSE Sociology we will look at the world in which we live and study key issuesthrough topics such as:
Education
The family
Work and employment
Power & control
The mass media
Poverty
We will consider the concepts of age, class, ethnicity and gender in the topic areas and develop an understanding about their significance in 21st Century society. Sociology is refreshingly different in that it helps you to broaden ideas and to give views that are supported by evidence obtained through Sociological research.
This is the second year that GCSE Sociology has been offered; it is also available at AS and A2 in the Sixth Form, where it has run successfully since 2000.