This site is primarily designed to help students revise a level sociology. It focuses on families and households, education and research methods, global development and crime and deviance with theory and methods. Please use the links under the relevant page headings to browse the sub topics in each of these topics, or simply search the site using the search function!

Revise Sociology (live since February 2014) initially focused on bare-bones revision material purely for A level sociology, but I’ve since started to upload more in-depth material on a range of topics relevant to A level sociology, and on some topics which are of personal interest to me and are beyond the specification, so a better name for the blog might now be ‘investigating sociology’ or ‘learning/ teaching’ sociology, but I’m sticking with revise sociology: now I’m ‘up there’ for some Google search-returns, I really don’t want to fall back down the rankings again. Shallow, I know, which is ironic for a sociology blog, but there you go.

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Our Objectives

Development of Critical/Analytic thinking
The sociological perspective is inherently critical. It demands of its practitioners that they analyze a complex set of specially relevant issues that are central to an understanding of society and social structures.

Rigorous training in quantitative and qualitative research methods
This aims at giving our graduates a sound methodological grounding in conducting various types of sociological research. Students are expected to acquire quantitative and interpretative research skills to learn how to select and apply research methods that are suitable for a particular problem of interest.

Professional socialization into such values as social responsibility and service to the community
This seeks to develop in students a sense of social responsibility to the community. The vision of sociology is firmly embedded in a value system based on the principles of social justice and human well-being.

Creation of a critical awareness of diversity issues
The Department has been a leader in articulating diversity issues and in framing curricular offerings that allow for a critical understanding of cultural and social diversity.

Enhancement of written and verbal communication skills
Through participation in the Core Curriculum, the Department is able to improve communication skills of its majors.