Students : Curriculum : Humanities : Sociology

Topics and issues studied on the AS/A2 Level course includes:

• Family:  Is it useful?  Is it in crisis?
• Gender:  Why are women unequal?  Why are men like they are?
• Education:  What do we really learn?
• Social Stratification:  Are we a classless society?  Why is inequality getting worse?
• Deviance:  Who are the criminals?  Why do they break the law?
• Religion:  Why do we believe?  What difference does it make to our behaviour?
• Theory and Methods:  How do we study society in a scientific way?  What is science anyway?

Sociology is a highly critical subject that forces us to question many of our everyday assumptions and taboos.  It teaches us to think in a critical scientific way, and gives an understanding of broad aspects of social life, beyond our own limited experiences.