Cambridge · Form 5 · Lower 6 · Syllabus 9699
Sociology
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- Socialisation, identity and sociological theory Culture, norms, values, roles, status, socialisation (primary and secondary), social control, identity (gender, ethnicity, class, age, nationality); structure and agency.
- Research methods Positivism and interpretivism; realism; theoretical, practical and ethical influences on choice of method; values in research.
- Social inequality: class, gender and ethnicity Theories of class (Marx, Weber, functionalism – Davis and Moore, Tumin's critique); changes in class structure (embourgeoisement, proletarianisation, the underclass); social mobility.
- Family Nuclear, extended, lone-parent, reconstituted, same-sex, cohabiting, transnational and child-headed families; household change; Rapoport's types of diversity.