The Sociology Guy

Students enter their initials, battle through 5 timed arcade levels and revise theories of crime, class, gender, ethnicity, globalisation, green crime, state crime, media, surveillance, punishment, victims and the criminal justice system. Perfect for AQA A-level Sociology Paper 3 revision. This arcade-style revision quiz is designed for AQA A-level Sociology students studying Crime and Deviance […

Cambridge OCR A-level Sociology Paper 3 is Debates in Contemporary Society. Section A focuses on Globalisation and the Digital Social World, while Section B requires students to choose one option: Crime and Deviance, Education, or Religion, Belief and Faith. The Crime and Deviance option focuses on how crime and deviance are socially constructed, measured, socially […]

AQA A-level Sociology includes Theory and Methods across both Paper 1 and Paper 3. The theory and debates material asks students to understand key sociological perspectives, including consensus, conflict, structural and social action theories; debates about modernity and postmodernity; the relationship between theory and methods; whether sociology can be scientific; debates about objectivity, sub…

Crime and Deviance is the compulsory Paper 3 topic for AQA A-level Sociology. Students need to understand sociological explanations of crime, deviance, social order and social control; the social distribution of crime by class, gender and ethnicity; globalisation, media, green crime, human rights and state crime; and crime control, surveillance, prevention, punishment, victims and the […]

Cambridge OCR A-level Sociology Component 03 includes the compulsory topic Globalisation and the Digital Social World. Students need to understand the relationship between globalisation and digital forms of communication, including the digital revolution, global village, networked global society, media convergence, social media, virtual communities and digital social networks. They also need to a…

The AQA A-level Sociology Media topic asks students to understand how media organisations are owned and controlled, how different social groups are represented, how news is selected and presented, how audiences use and respond to media, and how new media and globalisation have changed society. Students also need to evaluate key debates, including whether media […]

Stratification and Differentiation is one of the most concept-heavy areas of AQA A-level Sociology. Students need to understand how society is divided by social class, gender, ethnicity and age, as well as how these divisions affect wealth, status, power and life chances. They also need to evaluate sociological explanations of inequality, including functionalism, Marxism, Weberianism […]

Overview of Alice Sullivan’s cultural capital research Alice Sullivan’s study, “Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment”, tested Bourdieu’s idea that middle-class pupils may gain an advantage in education because they are more likely to possess the kinds of language, knowledge and cultural familiarity that schools reward. Sullivan surveyed pupils about their own and their parents’ cultural [&…

Cambridge OCR A-level Sociology Paper 2 includes Understanding Social Inequalities, where students need to understand patterns and trends in inequality and difference, especially in relation to social class, gender and ethnicity. Students also need to explain these patterns using key sociological theories, including functionalism, Marxism, Weberianism, feminism and the New Right. OCR guidance als…

Cambridge OCR A-level Sociology Paper 2 is Researching and Understanding Social Inequalities, so students need to understand not only patterns of inequality, but also how sociologists investigate them. This means thinking carefully about research aims, research design, sampling, ethics, validity, reliability, representativeness, quantitative data, qualitative data, mixed methods and the practical…

The Great British Class Survey challenged older ways of measuring class by arguing that class is not only about occupation or income. It used a more multidimensional approach based on economic capital, cultural capital and social capital. Economic capital refers to money, savings, property and income. Cultural capital refers to tastes, activities, knowledge and cultural […]

Horace Miner’s famous article “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” is one of those classic starter studies that works brilliantly with students who are new to sociology. First published in American Anthropologist in 1956, Miner writes as though he is describing a strange and unfamiliar tribe with unusual body rituals. The twist, of course, is that […]

Measuring social class is not as straightforward as simply asking what job someone does. Sociologists use different indicators, including occupation, income, wealth, education, culture and self-identity. Each measure reveals something useful, but each also has limitations. For example, someone may have a middle-class occupation but little wealth, or a high income but insecure work. Another [&#823…

Students enter their initials, battle through 5 timed arcade levels and revise globalisation, digital communication, social media, virtual communities, social capital, Marxism, feminism, postmodernism, identity, inequality, relationships and global culture. Perfect for Cambridge OCR A Level Sociology revision. This arcade-style revision quiz is designed for Cambridge OCR A Level Sociology student…

Life chances refer to the opportunities people have for education, work, income, housing, health, social mobility and quality of life. Sociologists argue that inequalities are often connected across the life course. For example, low family income may affect housing, health, school achievement, employment opportunities and later wealth. This means inequality is rarely a single event. […]

Globalisation has changed the way media and popular culture move around the world. Films, music, fashion, social media trends, celebrity culture and streaming platforms can now cross national borders very quickly. Some sociologists argue this creates cultural imperialism, where powerful Western, especially American, media companies spread dominant values, consumerism and lifestyles across the glo…

Students enter their initials, battle through 5 timed arcade levels and revise class, status, power, life chances, social mobility, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, class measurement, globalisation and the transnational capitalist class. Perfect for AQA A-level Sociology Paper 2 revision. This arcade-style revision quiz is designed for AQA A-level Sociology students studying Stratification and…

Max Weber argued that inequality is not only about social class. Although class is important because it affects money, property, qualifications and market position, Weber also argued that status and power shape people’s life chances. Status refers to the respect, prestige or social honour given to individuals or groups. Power refers to the ability to […]

Media ownership matters because those who own and fund media organisations may have the power to influence what is produced, which stories are prioritised, whose voices are heard and how events are represented. In AQA A-level Sociology, ownership and control of the media is often linked to debates between pluralists, Marxists, neo-Marxists and postmodernists. Pluralists […]

Students enter their initials, battle through 5 timed arcade levels and revise development theories, global inequality, globalisation, TNCs, NGOs, aid, trade, industrialisation, urbanisation, environment, conflict, education, health, gender and demographic change. Perfect for AQA A-level Sociology Paper 2 revision. This arcade-style revision quiz is designed for AQA A-level Sociology students stu…