Process
AQA A-Level Sociology 7192
Education
Topic overviewThe role and functions of educationClass differences in educational achievementLabelling, subcultures and processes within schoolsGender and educational achievementEthnicity and educational achievementSelection and marketisationPrivatisation and vocational educationEducational policy, equality and globalisation
Methods in Context
Theory and Methods
Culture and IdentityOptional topic
Families and HouseholdsOptional topic
Topic overviewFunctionalist views of the familyMarxist and feminist views of the familyThe New Right, postmodernism and family policyMarriage, cohabitation and divorceFamily diversity and the personal life perspectiveConjugal roles and domestic labourPower relationships and domestic violenceThe social construction of childhoodBirth rates and death ratesFamily size and the ageing populationMigration and globalisation
HealthOptional topic
Work, Poverty and WelfareOptional topic
Beliefs in SocietyOptional topic
Topic overviewIdeology and science as belief systemsFunctionalist views of religionMarxist and feminist views of religionReligion as a force for social changeChurches, sects, denominations and cultsNew religious movements and New Age movementsReligion, gender, ethnicity, age and social classSecularisationBelieving without belonging and postmodern religionGlobalisation, fundamentalism and religion worldwide
Global DevelopmentOptional topic
The MediaOptional topic
Stratification and DifferentiationOptional topic
Crime and Deviance
Topic overviewFunctionalist, strain and control theories of crimeSubcultural theories of crimeInteractionism and labelling theoryMarxist and critical theories of crimeLeft and right realismGender and crimeSocial class, white-collar and corporate crimeEthnicity, policing and the criminal justice systemGlobalisation and crimeThe media, crime and fear of crimeMoral panics and the deviancy amplification spiralGreen crimeState crime and human rightsDenial, neutralisation and prosecuting state crimeSituational and environmental crime preventionRealist crime control, surveillance and the panopticonPunishment, sentencing and the criminal justice systemVictims and victimologyCrime prevention strategies and their limits
Work, Poverty and Welfare
The division of labour and the control of work
- 3 things to know
- Paper 2
Overview
Durkheim on solidarity, Marx on alienation, Taylorism, Fordism and post-Fordism, and the deskilling debate.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Key term
How does post-Fordism differ from Fordism?
Key term
How can technology be used for surveillance and control in the workplace?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What is the division of labour?
Model answer
The way work tasks are broken down and distributed among workers, either within organisations or across society.
- 2
What distinction did Durkheim make between mechanical and organic solidarity?
Model answer
Mechanical solidarity exists in pre-industrial societies with minimal division of labour, while organic solidarity exists in industrial societies with complex specialisation.
- 3
According to Marx, how does the capitalist division of labour alienate workers from the product of their labour?
Model answer
Workers are separated from what they produce because they do not own it; the product belongs to the capitalist.
- 4
According to Marx, how does the capitalist division of labour alienate workers from the labour process?
Model answer
Workers have no control over how they work; the process is dictated by capitalists and managers.
- 5
According to Marx, what is alienation from species-being?
Model answer
Workers are alienated from their human potential and creativity because capitalism reduces work to repetitive, unfulfilling tasks.
- 6
What are the key features of scientific management or Taylorism?
Model answer
Breaking work into simple, repetitive tasks, separating conception from execution, and using time-and-motion studies to maximise efficiency.
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