BPS Notes

The notes were made using textbooks, websites and of course my sociology teachers, i have recommended all the resources i used at the bottom of this page.
Notes are in .doc or .ppt format so you will require Microsoft Word or Microsoft Powerpoint to open the files

How to download the notes

1. Right-click on the document you want
2. On the menu select Save Target As - to makes things easy just save it to the "My Documents" folder on your computer
3. The document will then begin to download from the website to your computer and once complete you can open up the document

• Unit 1 - Families and Households
  
  • Children Act 1989.doc
  • Family.doc
  • Feminism.doc
  • Profile of the Asian Community.doc

• Unit 2 - Education
  
  • Mac an Ghaill.doc
  • Online News Articles from the BBC News Website.doc
  • Rosenthal Jacobson.doc
  • Social Policy in Education.doc
  • ethnic minorities at gcse.doc
    
    

• Unit 4 - Power and Politics
  

  • Globalisation.doc
  • Mass Media.doc
  • Political Ideologies - Conservatism Liberalism Socialism.doc
  • Pressure Groups.doc
  • Theories of Power - Marxism,Pluralism,Elitism,Weberianism,Lukes.doc
  • Theories of Power - Types of Power and Extra Reading.doc
  • Sociology - Module 4.zip (This .zip file contains all the above Module 4 notes)

• Unit 6 - Crime & Deviance
  
  • Biological and Psychological Explanations of Crime and Deviance.doc
  • Crime and Deviance - Full Module Notes.doc
  • Crime and Deviance - Key Facts.doc
  • Crime and Deviance - Synoptic Links.doc
  • Interactionism - Becker Goffman Lemert.doc
  • Subculture - Miller and Matza.doc
  • Subculture - Functionalism - Cloward and Ohlin Merton Cohen.doc
  • Gender and Crime.doc
  • Left Realism.doc
  • Marxism and White Collar Crime.doc
  • Marxism.ppt
  • Official Crime Statistics.doc
  • Radical Criminology - Evaluation.doc
  • Right Realism.doc
  • Suicide.doc
  • Taylor Walton Young - Fully social theory of deviance.doc
  • Traditional Marxism.doc
  • Sociology - Module 6.zip (This .zip file contains all the above Module 6 notes)

Course Structure

Specification/Syllabus
For the latest AQA Sociology specification click here

Past Papers
For access to past papers and the mark schemes click here

Textbooks
Here are some textbooks i would recommend: (click the image to view more information)

Websites

http://www.sociology.org.uk
By far one of the best A-Level Sociology website around

http://www.mortonmail.com
A blog website, which is constantly being updated with relevant news articles relating to Sociology

http://www.esociology.co.uk
Some good powerpoint presentations on a variety of topics

http://www.barrycomp.com/bhs/index.htm
Although for the WJEC and OCR boards, some relevant topics to AS and A2