A-Level Sociology Study Group 2024-25

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by Blinkr

Welcome to the A-Level Sociology Study Group!

This thread is a place you can connect with fellow students who are also studying Sociology at A-Level. Here we offer a space to support each other support as you prepare for your exams/coursework.

Feel free to share any helpful tips, resources, or advice you find along the way, and share any questions you have about the subject.
Help encourage others, celebrate your achievements, or simply vent when things get a bit overwhelming!
Lil serious note - just a reminder please be aware that sharing or requesting copyrighted materials is against our community guidelines, and moving conversations off-site for this purpose is not allowed. Posts violating these rules will be taken down.
To get started, here are a few questions to break the ice:

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Which exam board are you following?

•

What do you enjoy the most about this subject or course?

•

What topics within A-Level Sociology do you find most challenging/interesting?

Hi.

Exam Board:AQA
What I'm enjoying most about the subject?
I'm enjoying learning about how society works. I didn't do GCSE Sociology.

I'm not sure for Q3.
I'm taking Sociology with Geography and History.
@always-anxious

Reply 2

Hello all, best of luck with everything this year :grin:

Which exam board are you following?
AQA

What do you enjoy the most about this subject or course?
The content for sure :yep:

What topics within A-Level Sociology do you find most challenging/interesting?
The timings for the exam :afraid:

Reply 3

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by always-anxious

Hello all, best of luck with everything this year :grin:

Which exam board are you following?
AQA
What do you enjoy the most about this subject or course?
The content for sure :yep:

What topics within A-Level Sociology do you find most challenging/interesting?
The timings for the exam :afraid:

I do Education, Families+Households,The Media and Crime. What do you do?

Reply 4

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by Geo Lover 7

I do Education, Families+Households,The Media and Crime. What do you do?

I do the same but I study beliefs instead of media. Do you have a favourite topic so far?

Reply 5

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by always-anxious

I do the same but I study beliefs instead of media. Do you have a favourite topic so far?

I've only done Couples and Childhood in Families+Households so far but I'm looking forward to the demographic change and state policy parts of families and households. Did you do that? Because I think you do that if I remember correctly.

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by Geo Lover 7

Yeah I studied demographic change and policies regarding families :woo:

I find it interesting how the different theories are applied to each different topic :yes:

Reply 7

ruby_08h

Hi.
Im studying AQA.
I enjoy the education brief the most however families is also interesting.
my topics are: Education, Family, Beliefs and Crime and Deviance

Reply 8

Does anyone do "the Media"?

Reply 9

BigFriendlyKid

Original post

by Blinkr

Welcome to the A-Level Sociology Study Group!

This thread is a place you can connect with fellow students who are also studying Sociology at A-Level. Here we offer a space to support each other support as you prepare for your exams/coursework.

Feel free to share any helpful tips, resources, or advice you find along the way, and share any questions you have about the subject.
Help encourage others, celebrate your achievements, or simply vent when things get a bit overwhelming!
Lil serious note - just a reminder please be aware that sharing or requesting copyrighted materials is against our community guidelines, and moving conversations off-site for this purpose is not allowed. Posts violating these rules will be taken down.
To get started, here are a few questions to break the ice:

•

Which exam board are you following?

•

What do you enjoy the most about this subject or course?

•

What topics within A-Level Sociology do you find most challenging/interesting?

im doing eduqas at the moment and im in year 12.
the essay writing since sociology helps me with english literature since i need to know all of the theories.
remembering the sociologists and theorists.

Reply 10

r1y4

Hihii!

Exam board:AQA
Enjoy most: I find it interesting how it teaches you about different ways stratification can oppress people within society as in my opinion it teaches ‘dark’ truthes that you wouldn’t think you’d learn about society in education. :-)
Find challenging:Exam timing and the fact that the specification doesn’t help me understand exactly what topics I need to know :’)

Reply 11

luno27

Original post

by Blinkr

Welcome to the A-Level Sociology Study Group!

This thread is a place you can connect with fellow students who are also studying Sociology at A-Level. Here we offer a space to support each other support as you prepare for your exams/coursework.

Feel free to share any helpful tips, resources, or advice you find along the way, and share any questions you have about the subject.
Help encourage others, celebrate your achievements, or simply vent when things get a bit overwhelming!
Lil serious note - just a reminder please be aware that sharing or requesting copyrighted materials is against our community guidelines, and moving conversations off-site for this purpose is not allowed. Posts violating these rules will be taken down.
To get started, here are a few questions to break the ice:

•

Which exam board are you following?

•

What do you enjoy the most about this subject or course?

•

What topics within A-Level Sociology do you find most challenging/interesting?

aqa, I love learning about conforming in society and crime, i find research methods most challenging

Reply 12

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by r1y4

Hihii!
Exam board:AQA
Enjoy most: I find it interesting how it teaches you about different ways stratification can oppress people within society as in my opinion it teaches ‘dark’ truthes that you wouldn’t think you’d learn about society in education. :-)
Find challenging:Exam timing and the fact that the specification doesn’t help me understand exactly what topics I need to know :’)

Yeah. The AQA specification is so vague. @always-anxious, @ruby_08h, @luno27 do you agree?

(edited 1 year ago)

Reply 13

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by Geo Lover 7

Yeah. The AQA specification is so vague. @always-anxious, @ruby_08h, @luno27 do you agree?

Honestly I haven't properly read through the specification (I've just glanced through it). I should get around to thoroughly reading it :o:

Reply 14

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by always-anxious

Honestly I haven't properly read through the specification (I've just glanced through it). I should get around to thoroughly reading it :o:

It's basically 5 bullet points for each topic so isn't worth reading.

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by Geo Lover 7

It's basically 5 bullet points for each topic so isn't worth reading.

Yeah I think the spec tells us the broad topics that we need to know rather then specific detail, which is quite different to my other subjects but oh well :dontknow:

There's resources online that have much more detail providing content for sociology (eg on Youtube) which I'm grateful for.

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by always-anxious

Yeah I think the spec tells us the broad topics that we need to know rather then specific detail, which is quite different to my other subjects but oh well :dontknow:

There's resources online that have much more detail providing content for sociology (eg on Youtube) which I'm grateful for.

Can you please look at my GYG because something bad happened at school today.

Reply 17

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by Geo Lover 7

Can you please look at my GYG because something bad happened at school today.

Sorry to hear something bad happened today; I'll have a look now

Reply 18