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UK GCSE Sociology · independent study
Independent myAudience subject study using references for England. Published readings cover selected topics; full curriculum, assessment and practical coverage are not verified. No awarding-body affiliation, endorsement, qualification or grade guarantee is offered. Check the source specification and your centre for the requirements of your chosen course.
Explaining social life: structure, agency and evidence
Socialisation, norms, roles, power and correction
Competing theories and the historical sociological imagination
From an idea to a defensible research design
Sampling: who can speak for whom?
Questionnaires and interviews: designing what people can say
Observation, validity and reliability in practice
Ethics and practical limits are part of the design
Reading data: association, causation and changing denominators
Secondary evidence, source criticism and mixed methods
Family, household and the dimensions of diversity
What do families do, and who benefits?
Conjugal roles: measuring sharing rather than assuming it
Family change, criticism and the interpretation of divorce
Education, meritocracy and the correspondence debate
Achievement, labelling and a reasoned education synthesis
Crime, deviance and competing explanations
Social control, gendered constraints and conditional conformity
Subcultures, material opportunities and limits of generalisation
Crime evidence: what surveys and police records actually measure