SOC1 The sociological approach and social processes personal learning checklist

AQA GCSE Sociology 8192 · Paper 1 & 2 · Specification 3.1–3.2

Support your confidence with precise concepts, evidence and a reasoned argument. Quick checks do not assess a complete evaluation or research design.

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Tick one box per statement. Red: need help. Amber: partly confident. Green: can do independently.

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Studying society
Explain a personal experience through social structure and agency.
Distinguish society, institutions, culture and subcultures.
Distinguish norms and values using a contextual example.
Explain status allocation, role expectations and role conflict.
Socialisation and control
Compare primary and secondary socialisation and their agencies.
Explain how gender expectations are learned and resisted.
Explain formal and informal social control with positive and negative sanctions.
Distinguish power from accepted legitimate authority.
Distinguish stereotypes, prejudice, labelling and discrimination.
Classical sociology in context
Explain Durkheim's historical context, social facts and account of cohesion.
Explain Marx's class relationships, exploitation and historical context.
Compare Weber's class, status and party with Marx's account.
Perspectives and debates
Evaluate functionalism using institutional functions and unequal effects.
Explain a Marxist mechanism connecting economic power with social institutions.
Apply feminism to gendered labour and power, recognising variation.
Use interactionism to explain meanings, labels and responses.
Compare conflict and consensus accounts of one social issue.
Evaluate transfer of historical findings and excluded groups to another context.
Social issues and assessment reasoning
Explain connections between family resources, education and inequality.
Distinguish social change from changes in measurement.
Analyse an extract's claim, reasoning, evidence and context.
Apply a relevant sociological mechanism to details in an item.
Compare explanations and construct a supported evaluative argument.
Select complementary methods for a specific social enquiry.
Explain alienation, cohesion, identity, stigma and worldviews through a contextual example.

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