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GCSE AQA GCSE 9–1 Sociology 3 AQA GCSE 9–1 Revision Cards 4 AQA GCSE 9–1 Sociology 4 Complete Revision and Practice AQA GCSE 9–1 Sociology Workbook 4 AQA GCSE 9–1 Sociology Practice Test Papers 5 A-level Student Support Materials for AQA 5 A-level Sociology AQA A-level Sociology, 4th edition 6 AQA A-level Sociology Themes 7 and Perspectives How to be a Sociologist 8 How to be a Social Researcher 9 Both levels Sociology Themes and Perspectives, 9 8th edition 2 collins.co.uk education@harpercollins.co.uk Key icons in the catalogue NEW New resources Age 16+ Age range GCSE For GCSE AS/A For AS and A-level Exam board specific: For AQA AQA approved Keep up to date! Tweet us @FreedomToTeach
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Fully matched to the 2017 AQA 9–1 GCSE Sociology specification, this revised and updated third edition offers contemporary case studies and focuses on the knowledge and skills that students need to succeed in GCSE 9–1 Sociology.
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Focus on Key Thinkers features cover the key sociological texts in the 2017 AQA specification and introduce key sociological perspectives
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to understand the human body and how it works, we could start by identifying the vital organs such as the heart, lungs or liver. We might then focus on one organ such as the heart and look at its job or function in pumping blood around the body. Next, we might examine how the heart is connected to other parts of the body such as the blood vessels. Finally, we could look at how the heart contributes to the survival of the body as a whole. In the same way, functionalism views society as made up of different parts that interlock and fit together. The different social institutions such as the family, education and religion are important organs in the body of society. Functionalism examines these institutions in terms of their functions, that is, the job they perform to help society run smoothly. The different social institutions meet the needs of society by performing functions to ensure its survival. Durkheim studied crime, religion and education by focusing on the functions they fulfil in meeting the needs of society. For example, he argued that the punishment of criminals has an important Durkheim was a key thinker behind functionalism. 22 Chapter 1: The sociological approach 234704 GCSE Sociology_CH1.indd 22 1/12/17 8:01 PM
FOCUS ON SKILLS: WRITTEN ACTIVITY Comparing society to the human body function in helping to bring people together. Punishment reinforces the values and beliefs that the majority of people in society hold. By binding people together in this way, crime can contribute to social cohesion
The different parts of the body each have function. Stretch and Challenge How far do you think that religion binds people together? Explain your ideas. Key points •Durkheim is one of the founders of sociology and a key figure behind the functionalist perspective. •Durkheim made an important contribution to sociologists’ understanding of the functions of crime, education and religion.
1 FOCUS ON THEORY: WRITTEN ACTIVITY Durkheim and Marx Durkheim focused on the functions of crime and the way crime can bind people together and contribute to social cohesion. Did Marx focus more on social cohesion or on conflict between social groups? Write a sentence to explain your thinking. Similarities between functionalism and Marxism Although functionalism and Marxism are different in important ways, they are both structural approaches This means that they focus on the structure of society and how this influences and directs human behaviour. However, not all sociologists agree with structural approaches. Critics argue that these approaches view people as being like puppets who are at the mercy of social forces beyond their control. FOCUS ON SKILLS: DISCUSSION ACTIVITY Are people simply puppets? One debate between sociologists focuses on how far society moulds us and controls our behaviour and how far we create and influence society. To what extent do you agree that society influences us and directs our behaviour? Can you think of ways in which we can influence, challenge or change society? Make a note of your ideas. Criticisms of functionalism The functionalist approach focuses on the positive functions that things such as crime and religion perform for society. However, critics argue that functionalism overlooks their dysfunctional (or negative) aspects. In reality, crime and religion do not always perform positive functions for society. For example, knife crime can have devastating effects on individual victims and on communities; religion can cause long-term conflicts between different social groups such as Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. Check your understanding 1 Describe what sociologists mean by the term ‘function’. (3 marks) 2 Identify and explain one criticism of functionalism. (4 marks) 23 What are the key ideas of Emile Durkheim?
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Chapter 1 Topic 6 What are the key ideas of Emile Durkheim? Emile Durkheim is one of the founders of sociology as an academic subject. His worldview or perspective is very different from that of Marx in important respects. Objective Describe the key ideas of Emile Durkheim FOCUS ON KEY THINKERS Emile Durkheim (1858–1917) Place of birth France Key contribution to the development of sociology Durkheim was a main figure in the origins of functionalism important perspective in sociology. This approach was popular, particularly among North American sociologists in the mid-20th century. Durkheim made a major contribution to sociologists’ understanding of the functions of crime, education and religion. He also showed how individual actions such as suicide are shaped by the wider society. Glossary terms function, functionalism, social cohesion, structural approach, worldview The functionalist perspective The functionalist approach explains social institutions (such as families, education systems and social stratification systems) in terms of the functions they perform for the wider society. To understand functionalism, a biological analogy (or comparison) can be used. In other words, we can compare society to the human body. If we want
Heart Kidneys Lungs Brain
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imposed on them by others from non-working-class backgrounds, and the middle-class students were keen to emphasise that they did not belong to these three groups. Indeed they looked down on what they saw as their immoral, anti-social behaviour and their poor taste. They saw them as arrogant, flashy, loud, uninterested in learning and lacking in self-control. While the middle-class students saw themselves as investing in their educational future, they saw the working-class pupils who were chavs, charvers or townies as lacking in the desire to succeed and therefore likely to fail.
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1. Examine the subcultures (if there are any) in your own school or college. What are the similarities and differences compared to the subcultures found in this research?
2. Evaluate whether the type of school used in the research (inner-city comprehensives) could explain the similarities and differences you discussed in answering question 1.
3. Identify the possible advantages and disadvantages of using interviews to study subcultures?
4. Suggest an alternative research method for this type of research and explain why it might be useful.
(Norton and Riverton), ‘skaters’ or ‘jitters’ (Norton and Riverton), ‘rockers’ and ‘gangsters’ (London), and ‘townies’ or ‘chavs’ or ‘charvers’ (predominantly Norton and Riverton) (Hollingworth and Williams, 2009, p. 470). Most of these groups were predominantly middle-class, but those seen as chavs, charvers or townies were invariably working class. None of the working-class pupils gave themselves these labels – they were
Research by Mairtan Mac an Ghaill (1994) examined working-class students in a Midlands comprehensive.
Because the school divided pupils into three sets, three distinct male, working-class peer groups developed rather than two:
› In the lowest set the main subculture was that of the ‘macho lads’. They were academic failures who became hostile to the school, showed little interest in school work, and were usually from less skilled working-class backgrounds.
5. On the basis of this research, explain the view that it is not just teachers who can give pupils negative labels.
6. Applying this research, analyse how the labels attached to some working-class pupils might affect their educational progress.
› In the highest set, the predominant subculture was of the ‘academic achievers’. They were academic ‘successes’ usually from more skilled working-class backgrounds. They tried hard at school and were aiming to progress to higher levels of study.
› The middle set was dominated by the ‘new enterprisers’. They had a positive attitude to school and school work, but they saw the vocational curriculum as a route to career success rather than academic subjects.
› By concentrating on processes within the education system, they fail to explain where wider class inequalities come from. They tend not to look at the wider context that gives rise to stereotypes of the working class, inequality in access to successful schools, and so on. They therefore ignore or downplay factors outside the schools. (Paul Willis, who combines the study of interaction in schools with Marxist analysis, is an exception here.)
› Labelling theory sometimes sounds deterministic success and failure seems to be entirely determined by the attitudes of pupils, which gives pupils little apparent control over their own achievement. It is clear that not all pupils live up to labelling by teachers. For example, a study by Margaret Fuller (1984) found that a group of black working-class girls who were labelled as likely failures responded by working harder to achieve success. Rather than a self-fulfilling prophecy taking place, they rebelled against the low expectations of their teachers.
UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT
Most people feel that most of the time they can choose how they behave. However, sociologists tend to claim that, to some extent, social factors can explain behaviour. This suggests that people don’t have a free choice and that their behaviour is shaped by outside forces. Deterministic theories take this view to the extreme. They don’t acknowledge that individuals have any choice about how they behave instead arguing that circumstances shape what they do. For some, labelling is a deterministic theory which claims that people will always live up to a label imposed on them by other people. However, most labelling theorists recognise that sometimes individuals will refuse to live up to their labels. These labelling theorists do not therefore support a deterministic version of labelling theory.
› Some interactionists may have simplified models of pupil subcultures and do not identify the full range of responses to schools. By identifying just two or three subcultures, they ignore groups and individuals
who don’t fall neatly into one category. However, not all interactionists fall into this trap. For example, Peter Woods (1983) identified eight different groups in schools. ‘Opportunists’, for example, fluctuated between trying to gain the approval of their teachers and of their peer group.
› Many of the studies have been based on male peer groups and are less useful for understanding female groups (see Chapter 4 for more discussion on gender differences in education).
› Interactionist approaches tend not to look at the effect of social policies in any detail, yet these too can have a major impact on whether factors in the education system promote greater equality of opportunity or make class differences in achievement more pronounced. These are discussed in the following section, Social policy and social class.
Think about relationships and peer groups in the school or college where you study. Are there distinct peer groups? Do they tend to be based on streams or sets and are they linked to social class? Are there more than two or three subcultures? What do your observations suggest about interactionist theories of class and achievement?
Social policy and social class Educational policies relating to class can be divided into two main types: › those specifically aimed at reducing class inequalities › more general policies that have had an impact on class inequalities in education even though this is not their main aim. Many policies aimed directly at reducing class inequality have been based upon cultural deprivation theory (which sees working-class culture as lacking the necessary attributes to promote success in education). These policies have led to the idea of positive discrimination
FOCUS ON RESEARCH: CHAVS, CHARVERS AND TOWNIES Research by Hollingworth and Williams (2009) examined the way in which some working-class pupils were labelled and devalued as ‘chavs’ by their middle-class peers. The study involved interviews with white, urban, middle-class families whose students went to one of three inner-city comprehensive schools: ‘Norton’ (in north east England), ‘Riverton’ (in south-west England) and a London school. They interviewed 124 families with parents and children together, 180 mothers or fathers individually and 68 students individually. The students were aged between 12 and 25, and those who had left school talked about their previous school experience. In all the schools the students could identify distinct subcultures: ‘hippies’ or ‘poshies’ (Norton), ‘goths’ and ‘emos’
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PM Evaluation of interactionist perspectives Although interactionist perspectives have been very influential, and they show that factors operating within school can have a significant impact upon educational achievement, they have been criticised in a number of ways:
in the form of compensatory education – where the working class are given extra help in the education system to compensate for the supposed inadequacy of their socialisation. A variety of schemes have aimed at providing extra help for the working class such as Sure Start, launched In 1998. Sure Start has provided additional pre-school education to try to compensate for any lack of educational stimulation from parents. However, critics such as Whitty (2002) believe that all these schemes tend to place blame for failure on the child Class and edu C ational a C hievement 27 1.2 97475_P015_030.indd 27 30/09/19 8:27 PM
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AQA A-level Sociology
Themes and Perspectives
Authors: Michael Haralambos, Martin Holborn, Tim Davies and Pauline Wilson
Tailored to the 2015 AQA AS and A-level Sociology specifications, these accessible student books offer depth, detail and clarity, the most up-to-date coverage and in-depth exam support. Written by the bestselling authors of the ‘Blue Bible’, Sociology: Themes and Perspectives, these resources are designed to help students develop the skills required to succeed in their A-levels.
● Easy to navigate with a clear and accessible structure precisely mapped to the AQA specification
● Engage students with the latest research, theoretical developments and studies, government policy and contemporary issues
● Challenge students of all abilities with chapters that offer depth and detail, as well as detailed evaluation and challenging tasks to stretch the most able
● Consolidate understanding and learning with summaries and key terms for each unit
● Complement your teaching in the classroom with a range of activities, including images, articles, data and research scenarios to prompt discussion
● Build the skills required for exam success with detailed exam practice for each topic, sample responses at different levels for each question type and examiner guidance taken from the findings of the first AS and A-level exams
● Includes a specially commissioned Then and Now feature: in their own words, the authors of ground-breaking sociological studies revisit and assess the relevance of their work to contemporary society
This is a beautiful book, not just in appearance but in its functionality. It offers both range a nd depth of coverage in a style and format that is accessible to all students of sociology, of all abilities. It is intelligently written which engages the reader with stimulating images and well-designed consolidation activities throughout. This is the ideal [resource] for skills-development, particularly application, analysis and evaluation which many texts fail to address. To call this a ‘Swiss army knife’ that covers all bases for the modern sociology classroom is an understatement.
Chris Deakin, Head of Sociology on AQA A-level Sociology Themes and Perspectives Year 1 and AS
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How to be a Sociologist
An introduction to A Level Sociology
Authors: Dr Sarah Cant and Dr Jennifer Hardes
Equip your students with the skills to think like a sociologist with this up-to-date and accessible introduction to studying A Level Sociology and beyond. Students will discover how sociology works, the transformative impact it can have on the world, and where it could take them.
● Give students a flavour of the key ideas they will encounter at A Level
● Spark you students’ sociological imagination with the latest thinking from expert authors
● Equip students with information about the career and higher education opportunities sociology can lead to
● Use throughout the A Level course or set as prior summer reading
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● Authors Sarah Cant and Jennifer Hardes teach and research at Canterbury Christ Church University, and are working to enhance school-university collaboration
Durkheim and Weber, should be given his rightful place as a founding father of sociology, and credited with drawing attention to the pervasive reality of racial inequality, segregation and discrimination. Du Bois argued that the ‘most significant problem of the 20th century is the colour line’ (1903/1968:1) and as such, this was the proper subject matter for sociology.
Case Study: Critical race glasses and mental illness
GLOSSARY
absolute poverty when a person’s household income is not enough to sustain a basic standard of living and meet essential human needs (food, shelter, clothing) agency the notion that individuals have the capacity to act freely, often contrasted with determinism and social structure alienation (Marx) a process in which someone becomes disconnected from their work and from other humans anomie an absence of shared norms or values (integration) and guidance (regulation) beliefs ideas about the world that people hold to be true, although they may not be based on evidence; beliefs lead us to take on certain values that are deemed socially important (see also values)
Blackfeminism feminism that focuses on the way that women’s subordination is rooted in racism and classism as well as sexism; it calls for an intersectional understanding of inequality and a recognition that women’s experiences are not homogeneous bourgeoisie (Marx) the social class that owns the means of production and so is made up of more powerful members of society breachingexperiment (Garfinkel) an experiment that intentionally disrupts (breaches) social norms bureaucracy (Weber) a hierarchical
economic, physical, symbolic, and social – and it is the accumulation of different types of capital that constitutes someone’s social status cultural capital knowledge, lifestyle choices, values, leisure activities and education economic capital how much income and wealth someone has physical capital bodily dispositions and shape (including how attractive someone is deemed to be) social capital a person’s social networks, relationships and who they know symbolic capital a person’s status and prestige capital (Marx) economic relations and wealth capitalism (Marx) a system defined by its economic relations of production, where goods and services are bought and sold for profit, and in which two distinct ‘classes’ emerge – those who own the goods and services (the bourgeoisie) and those who have to sell their labour to earn a living (the proletariat) causation the scientific belief that a variable (‘x’) directly impacts on, and changes, another variable (‘y’) cisnormativity the dominant social belief that a person’s gender corresponds with their biological sex at birth citizen a person who belongs to a community and has equal rights and duties under law class,social an individual’s
In The Philadelphia Negro (1899), Du Bois described an in-depth study of the lives of African Americans based on census data and over 2,500 in-person interviews. At this point in time, although slavery had been officially abolished in 1865, American society remained highly segregated. A number of laws were passed in the 1890s that established separate drinking fountains, bathrooms, restaurants, hotels, trains beaches, parks and theatres along the colour line. Du Bois drew attention to continued structural racism and focused on revealing the racial inequalities produced through capitalism, showing how racism served the interests of the (White) capitalist class. Racism permitted both extreme exploitation and prevented radical social change, he argued. He called for African Americans to develop a doubleconsciousness – to see themselves as ordinary people, members of families and communities, but also to be aware of the way that they were seen through the eyes of White people, who viewed them as inferior. A segregated water-cooler in Oklahoma, USA, 1939 Du Bois campaigned against racism and culturalassimilation demanding equal rights and championing the cultural achievements of people of African descent. It is therefore astonishing that his work has taken so long to be considered central to the sociological canon.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Sociology demands that we document, understand and question the ways that racism shapes people’s lives. Important sociological work, for instance, charts the link between racism and mental illness (Littlewood and Lipsedge, 1997 and Fernando, 2010). This has a long history. For example, enslaved people who attempted to escape from their ‘owners’ were diagnosed with a mental illness called drapetomania – their desire to flee was explained by their individual mental fragility rather than the terrible conditions in which they were held. Nazroo et al (2020) showed how structural, institutional and interpersonal racism continue to explain why more minority ethnic people are diagnosed with mental illness than the White majority in the UK today. They draw on evidence to show that minority ethnic groups are economically disadvantaged, subject to interpersonal racism in their everyday lives, and experience prejudice in the health service, leading to over-representation in the mental health system and the potential over-diagnosis of mental illness by psychiatrists. These particular glasses focus on the multiple ways that racism underscores the experience of mental illness.
Mary Wollstonecraft and beyond
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is for cages, constraint and patriarChy
In this section, we begin with the work of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97), a writer regarded as one of the first feminists. Within the broad church of feminism there are, however, many iterations, and it is better to talk of feminisms What joins most of the work is a concern to understand gender divisions within society, and the powerful and enduring differences that characterise men’s and women’s lives. Feminists are especially interested in how the social structure of patriarchy shapes social experiences and this is deemed to be the proper subject matter of sociology.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Feminist writers make an important distinction between sex and gender and this continues to be useful. Sex refers to the biological traits that society associates with being male or female, while gender refers to the learned ways of being male or female. Historically, feminists have tended to focus on the concept of gender rather than sex. More recently, however, the simplicity of this binary has been questioned, and towards the end of this section we look at some of the contemporary ways that sex has also been viewed as a social category, and how transgender has been conceptualised and studied. Finally, because feminism mainly concentrates on the experiences of women, we close this section with a short focus on men’s studies and masculinity.
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How to be a Sociologist
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CONTENTS Introduction:Whybeasociologist? 4 Chapter1 Be imaginative: Making connections between the personal and the public 8 Chapter2 Be conceptual: Putting on sociological glasses 20 Chapter3 Be rigorous: Exploring the sociological toolkit 58 Chapter4 Be knowledgeable: Asking questions and finding answers 72 Chapter5 Be reflexive: Turning the sociological imagination onto sociology itself 128 Chapter6 Be transformative: Bringing about change in yourself and others 142 Anending: A sociology of hope and reasons to be optimistic 154 References 157 Glossary 166 Index 178 Acknowledgements 188 12920 P001 188 How o be Soc o og t ndd 3 12920_P001_188_How to a Sociologist.indd 3 02 06 2021 13 46 02/06/2021 13:46 40 2 BE CONCEPTUAL: PUTTING ON SOCIOLOGICAL GLASSES W.E.B Du Bois and beyond C is for colour, colonialism and raCism William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963), a contemporary of Marx,
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organisation that operates according to rational sets of rules and procedures capital (Bourdieu) a set of skills and resources that take numerous forms; Bourdieu identifies five types of capital – cultural,
How to be a Social Researcher
Using Sociological Studies
Authors: Dr Sarah Cant and Dr Jennifer Hardes
Discover the enduring value and importance of social research methods in this dynamic and practical guide. Students will explore the research methods central to the discipline through a selection of classic and contemporary studies, giving students the knowledge to research rigorously, responsibly and reflexively themselves.
● Equip students with cutting edge, relevant, contemporary and diverse studies in this book
● Can easily be used to supplement and enhance the current A level specifications
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Sociology Themes and Perspectives 8th Edition
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