I definitely wouldn’t call sociology an easy pass. But, if you’ve got a good understanding of things like class, gender, race etc and how it impacts families, education and crime it will make your life a lot easier.
I found a lot of it was stuff I already knew, but the essays are the difficult thing. For AQA there is two 12 mark questions per section, so four per exam. This means an hour of your exam should be essay writing, which can be difficult for many. Also, no one I’ve known to do sociology says it’s easy 😭
I’d say rather than focusing on key terms try and do practice 12 marks, as they make up the bulk of your essay and is where theories have the spotlight