Sociology
Daily-habit recall for GCSE Sociology: key concepts, named theorists, research studies and sociological perspectives. Taught at fewer schools than History or Geography but the content is highly fact-dense: named sociologists, studies, and specific supporting evidence.
AQA · Eduqas
~55k
GCSE entries / year
A smaller but stable GCSE cohort, largely offered in schools that run it as an option alongside Psychology or History. Student uptake is growing as social literacy becomes a soft-skills priority. AQA takes ~75% of the market.
2/2
Boards in scope
AQA 8192 is the dominant spec (primary authoring target). Eduqas C200 shares the bulk of the content: family, education, crime, stratification. (OCR withdrew GCSE Sociology, so it isn't offered.) Per-card boards tagging handles board-specific topics.
High
Fit for spaced repetition
Sociology is built on named theorists (Parsons, Marx, Becker, Merton, Bowles & Gintis), specific studies (Willis's Learning to Labour, Oakley's The Sociology of Housework), and precise definitions (anomie, meritocracy, labelling theory). Exactly what the recall card mechanic is built for.
What's covered
Sociologists, studies and concepts: spec-anchored.
GCSE Sociology rewards students who can cite named theorists and match studies to perspectives. Educator's recall mechanic turns 'vaguely know Marxist theory' into 'Bowles & Gintis, hidden curriculum, correspondence principle: correct every time'.
The Sociological Approach
- ✓Functionalism, Marxism, feminism and interactionism
- ✓Culture, norms, values, roles and status
- ✓Primary and secondary socialisation
- ✓Identity and the nature vs nurture debate
Families
- ✓Family forms and diversity: the Rapoports
- ✓Functions of the family: Murdock and Parsons
- ✓Marriage, divorce and cohabitation
- ✓Conjugal roles: Willmott and Young, Oakley
Education
- ✓Roles of education: functionalism and Bowles and Gintis
- ✓Class, gender and ethnic differences in achievement
- ✓Labelling, subcultures and the hidden curriculum
- ✓Willis and the counter-school culture
Crime & Deviance
- ✓The social construction of crime and deviance
- ✓Merton, Becker and subcultural theories
- ✓Crime statistics and the dark figure
- ✓Formal and informal social control
Social Stratification
- ✓Class, status and power: Marx and Weber
- ✓Life chances and social mobility
- ✓Poverty: Townsend and Murray
- ✓Patriarchy and the welfare state: Walby
Research Methods
- ✓Positivism vs interpretivism
- ✓Questionnaires, interviews and observation
- ✓Primary vs secondary data
- ✓Reliability, validity and research ethics
Spec-faithful, sourced and fact-checked. 447 cards cover the sociological approach (perspectives, key concepts, socialisation, identity), families (forms, functions, conjugal roles, marriage and divorce), education (functionalist and Marxist views, differential achievement, labelling and subcultures), crime and deviance (social construction, Merton, Becker, statistics, social control), social stratification (class, life chances, poverty, power, patriarchy) and research methods.
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