A-Level Sociology, in your board’s own words

AQA · CAIE · OCR · 41 specification topics

A-Level Sociology is not one course. AQA, CAIE, OCR each publish their own specification, their own papers and their own mark schemes, and an answer that scores full marks on one can drop marks on another for saying the right thing the wrong way. elid holds all 3 of them — 41 topics in total — and writes every explanation against the one you actually sit.

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What elid does with a Sociology question

Ask it the way you would ask a teacher. elid matches the question to a topic on your specification, answers it in the assessment language your board rewards, and shows the mark scheme logic behind it. Paste your own written answer instead and it marks that — point by point, naming what was missing rather than grading it out of ten and leaving you to guess.

Every Sociology topic elid covers

AQA

• Education: Role and Functions
• Education: Differential Achievement (Social Class)
• Education: Internal Factors (Labelling & Subcultures)
• Education: Educational Policies
• Education: Differential Achievement (Gender & Ethnicity)
• Crime: Functionalism, Strain & Subcultural Theories
• Crime: Marxism & Neo-Marxism
• Crime: Interactionism & Labelling Theory
• Crime: Realist Theories
• Crime: Gender, Ethnicity & Crime
• Crime: Globalisation, Green Crime, State Crime & Media
• Crime: Prevention, Punishment, Victims & Surveillance
• Family: Theories of the Family
• Family: Demographic Trends
• Family: Family Diversity
• Family: Conjugal Roles and Domestic Division of Labour
• Family: Childhood
• Theory & Methods: Sociology as a Science
• Theory & Methods: Research Methods
• Theory & Methods: Sociological Theory
• Beliefs in Society: Religion, Secularisation and Social Change
• Global Development

CAIE

• Socialisation and Identity
• The Family: Changing Roles and Relationships
• The Family: Theories of the Family and Social Change
• The Family: Diversity and Social Change
• Education: Education and Social Inequality
• Sociological Research Methods
• Globalisation
• Media
• Religion

OCR

• Social Inequalities
• Socialisation, Culture and Identity: Introducing Socialisation
• Socialisation, Culture and Identity: Youth Subcultures
• Socialisation, Culture and Identity: Families and Relationships
• Contemporary Debates: Globalisation and Digital World
• Contemporary Debates: Crime and Deviance
• Contemporary Debates: Education
• Research Methods in Context
• Identity Formation: Postmodernism, Late Modernity and Structural Debates
• Beliefs in Society: Secularisation and Social Change