A-level
Sociology A-level:
Key Problems
Learn It
Check you know the main principles by reviewing the list of different topic areas, either click on the topic heading to quick learn the whole topic or pick individual principles to brush up.
Key Problems
Nature/Nurture
Determinism and Free Will
System and Action Synthesis
Value freedom
- The importance of value freedom
- Sociology and value freedom
- Relativism
- 'Soft' relativism
- Values and stages of research
- 'Hard' relativism
- Feminist views
- The 'New Right'
- Background reading
Sociology and Value
The Self
- Feedback
- G.M. Mead
- Herbert Blumer
- The 'I' and the 'Me'
- Public and private selves
- The self as actor
- Sincerity and cynicism
- Front
- Idealisation
- Teams
- Regions
The theory/method relationship
Non-sexist research
Test It
Now you have learnt the main principles, test yourself with these sample questions. If you get stuck, go back and review the principle again.
Revise It
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