Year 13 Topics (1) In year 13 we teach the following topics over the course of the year. Each topic draws on prior learning from previous years and builds on understanding from the Year 12 programme of study. Each topic develops and deepens the Core knowledge that will underpin all areas of the curriculum at KS5 and onward into undergraduate courses. Topic Rationale Knowledge acquisition Key vocabulary Skills and enrichment Beliefs in Sociology of Defining and measuring belief. Substantive, exclusivist, functional, AO1: Demonstrate knowledge Society beliefs is a inclusivist, constructionist, attendance, and understanding of: relevant, affiliation, practice, Brierley • sociological theories, sensitive and concepts and evidence contemporary Functionalist view of the role of Biological analogy, value consensus, • sociological research methods topic area of religion. secondary socialisation, social study. integration, social solidarity, sacred, AO2: Apply sociological profane, totem, collective conscience, theories, concepts, evidence cognitive capacity, prevents anomie, and research methods to a conservative force, civil religion, range of issues vicarious religion, C.A.G.E, Durkheim, Parsons, Malinowski, Bellah, Davie AO3: Analyse and evaluate sociological theories, concepts, Marxist view of the role of religion. Capitalism, bourgeoisie, proletariat, evidence and research methods exploitation, ISA, ruling class ideology, in order to: false class consciousness, social • present arguments construction, omnipotent, omnipresent, • make judgements infallible, opium, dulls the pain of • draw conclusions oppression, alienation, insidious form of mind control, justifies inequality, conservative force, C.A.G.E, Marx, Althusser Feminist view of the role of religion. Patriarchy, monotheistic, infallible, domination, inequality, oppression, conservative force, scripture, organisation, religious laws/customs, religiosity, liberal, radical, Marxist, AO1: Demonstrate knowledge Muslim feminist, differential and understanding of: socialisation, C.A.G.E, El Sadawi, Malala • sociological theories, Yousafzai concepts and evidence • sociological research methods Religion can be a force for social Functionalist, Marxist, Feminist, change. conservative force, Protestant ethic and AO2: Apply sociological the spirit of capitalism, predestination, theories, concepts, evidence ascetic lifestyle, dual character, and research methods to a resistance, protest, hegemony, range of issues Liberation Theology, fundamentalism, paradox, C.A.G.E, Engels, Maduro, AO3: Analyse and evaluate Gramsci, Weber, Billings sociological theories, concepts, evidence and research methods Ideology; science versus religion. Ideology, theocratic stage, heresy, in order to: positivist stage, rationalism, objective, • present arguments value free, disenchantment, • make judgements Postmodernism, metanarrative, truth, • draw conclusions facts, falsification, knowledge is cumulative, guesswork, testing, subjective, NOMA, relativist, fundamentalism, C.A.G.E, Comte, Weber, Malinowski, Gellner, Bilton, Popper, Kuhn, Dawkins, Lynch, Hawking, Gould, Giddens Globalisation, postmodernity and Metanarrative, monopoly of truth, religiosity. fragmentation, dissolving, pick and mix, diversity, freedom, choice, cultural amnesia, spiritual shop, spiritual marketplace, hybrid identity, disneyfication, trivial, desacrilisation, resacrilisation, universalism, multi faith, fundamentalism, C.A.G.E, Hervieu-Leger, AO1: Demonstrate knowledge Davie, Giddens, Beyer and understanding of: • sociological theories, NRMs and NAMs, including Church, bureaucratic, conservative, open concepts and evidence fundamentalism. membership, intolerant, denomination, • sociological research methods sect, radical, charismatic leader, conversionist, revolutionist, AO2: Apply sociological introversionist, cult, world rejecting, theories, concepts, evidence world accommodating, world affirming, and research methods to a marginality, theodicy of disprivilege, range of issues relative deprivation, secularisation, globalisation, postmodernism, social AO3: Analyse and evaluate change, protest, resacrilisation, spiritual sociological theories, concepts, shopping, spiritually deprived, spiritual evidence and research methods vacuum, second generation, sectarian in order to: cycle, C.A.G.E, literal interpretation, • present arguments infallible, monopoly of truth, • make judgements conservative, activism, project identities, • draw conclusions resistant identities, western fundamentalism, third world fundamentalism, clash of civilisations, Troeltsch, Niebuhr, Wallis, Weber, Barker, Stark & Bainbridge, Heelas, Glock & Stark, Bellah, Cohn, Bauman, Baudrillard, Wilson, Kendal project, Giddens, Bauman, Castells, Bruce, Huntingdon, Davie Patterns in religiosity; class, age, Belief, practice, theodicy of disprivilege, gender and ethnicity. NRMs, cult, sect, fundamentalism, NAMs, Functionalist, Marxist, Feminist, passive, obedient, socialisation, religious identity, cultural defence, gendered division of labour, home centred, jugglers, career women, spirituality, AO1: Demonstrate knowledge moral decline, rationalisation, believe and understanding of: without belong, feminisation of the • sociological theories, church, cultural amnesia, second concepts and evidence generation, postmodernism, • sociological research methods globalisation, decline in metanarratives, disillusioned, civil religion, vicarious AO2: Apply sociological religion, hybrid identity, theories, concepts, evidence fundamentalism, Weber, Glock & Stark, and research methods to a Woodhead, Brierley, Barker range of issues Arguments in favour of secularisation. Census, Exclusivist, inclusivist, AO3: Analyse and evaluate disappearance thesis, differentiation sociological theories, concepts, thesis, religious thinking, religious evidence and research methods practice, religious power, in order to: disenchantment, rationalisation, • present arguments Enlightenment, desacrilisation of • make judgements consciousness, industrialisation, • draw conclusions vicarious religion, morality, postmodernism, decline in metanarratives, fragmentation of belief, cultural amnesia, secularisation from within, disneyfication, C.A.G.E, Wilson, Woodhead & Heelas, Weber, Bruce, Comte, Dawkins, Lyotard, Herberg, Lyon Arguments against secularisation. Census, Kendal project, resacrilisation, spiritual revolution, postmodernity, globalisation, hybrid identities, spiritual shopping, spiritual marketplace, believe without belonging, privatisation of belief and practice, disembed, televangelism, religious consumerism, re-enchantment, religious decline/renewal/revival, existential security, fundamentalism, C.A.G.E, Heelas & Woodhead, Davie, Warner, Hervieu-Leger, Lyon, Stark & Bainbridge, Norris & Inglehart Year 13 Topics (2) In year 13 we teach the following topics over the course of the year. Each topic draws on prior learning from previous years and builds on understanding from the Year 12 programme of study. Each topic develops and deepens the Core knowledge that will underpin all areas of the curriculum at KS5 and onward into undergraduate courses. Topic Rationale Knowledge acquisition Key vocabulary Skills and enrichment Crime & Crime and Non-sociological explanations of crime Genetics, atavistic, chemical imbalances, AO1: Demonstrate knowledge Deviance deviance is a and deviance; physiological and chromosomal abnormalities, and understanding of: compulsory topic psychological theories. socialisation, maternal deprivation, • sociological theories, within the AQA impulsive, personality types, Lombroso, concepts and evidence syllabus. Moir & Jessel, Bowlby, Eysenck • sociological research methods Criminology is an area which Functionalist explanations of crime Structural theory, inevitable, necessary, AO2: Apply sociological engages and and deviance; strain theory. pluralistic, value consensus, society of theories, concepts, evidence interests saints, progress, social cohesion, safety and research methods to a students due its valve, warning device, American dream, range of issues contemporary cultural goals, legitimate institutionalised relevance. means, strain theory, anomie, AO3: Analyse and evaluate conformity, innovation, ritualism, sociological theories, concepts, retreatism, rebellion, financial, individual evidence and research methods response, Control theory, social bonds, in order to: C.A.G.E, Cohen, Merton, Hirschi • present arguments • make judgements Subcultural explanations of crime and Structural, Functionalism, value • draw conclusions deviance. consensus, collective response, non- utilitarian, motiveless, anti-social, glory crimes, cultural goals, cultural deprivation, material deprivation, educational failure, opportunities blocked, fatalistic attitude, immediate gratification, status frustration, reject, replace, reverse, conflict subculture, criminal subculture, retreatist subculture, focal concerns, underclass, AO1: Demonstrate knowledge socialisation, drift, free will, and understanding of: subterranean values, techniques of • sociological theories, neutralisation, Ecology theory, concepts and evidence Environmental theory, cultural • sociological research methods transmission theory, tipping, OCR, C.A.G.E, Cohen, Cloward & Ohlin, Miller, AO2: Apply sociological Murray, Matza, Park & Burgess theories, concepts, evidence and research methods to a Traditional Marxist and Neo-Marxist Capitalism, bourgeoisie, proletariat, range of issues explanations of crime and deviance. ruling