What your child will learn in year 13?

Term 1	Sociology: The Mass Media, globalisation and popular culture. The New Media and its impact. Students will understand the concept and nature of globalisation and be able to debate the varying viewpoints on its impact on the media and society Students will understand what is meant by popular culture and be able to debate the impact of the global mass media upon it, which a particular focus on the question of whether there is now a single global popular culture Students will understand the concept and impact of the new media on the mass media and society, and be able to link it to other areas of the unit; they will be able to debate the neophiliac and neophobe perspectives.
Term 2	Sociology: The process of selection and presentation of the news. Media representations of difference social groups. The relationship between the media and audiences. Students will understand and be able to discuss the processes that underlie the selection and presentation of the news, including journalistic news values, practical and structural factors; students will be able to express Marxist and pluralist viewpoints on these Students will understand the following theoretical areas: passive audience models, active audience models and studies about the link between the media and violence; students will be able to debate these issues from different theoretical perspectives. Students will be able to discuss, from theoretical perspectives, the way the media presents different social groups.
Term 3	Sociology: Recap of Research Methods. Different theories of crime, deviance and social control. The distribution of crime by age, ethnicity, gender, class and locality. Students will revisit research methods and be able to explain their strengths and limitations Introduction of Unit 4, its content and the PLC. Students will be able to explain the difference between crime and deviance, and be able to debate different sociological perspectives on the causes of crime and deviance in society Students will be able to give explanations for varying crime rates among different social groups
Term 4	Sociology: Globalisation and crime. The media and crime. Green crime. Human rights and state crime. Crime prevention and punishment. Students will understand the impact of globalisation on crime, specifically the emergence of new types of crime the impact on law enforcement Students will be able to debate sociological views on the links between the mass media and crime, including moral panics Students will understand and be able to debate differing perspectives on green crime and state crime / human rights Students will understand and be able to explain different approaches to crime prevention and social control
Term 5	Sociology: Sociological theory. The science debate. Revision and exam preparation. Students will be able to discuss the impact of the following perspectives on society: Marxism, neo-Marxism, Functionalism, Feminism, Interactionism, Realism, Postmodernism Students will be able to debate whether sociology is / is not a science and place this in a framework using Popper, Kuhn and others Students will be able to debate the relevance of interactionist and positivist methodologies Students will start to revise, with initial focus on methods in context questions
Term 6	Sociology: Revision Students will continue to revise, with time allocated to both Unit 3 and Unit 4, using PLCs and a guide to weak areas. A focus on exam questioning and paragraph structuring throughout.