Available for review. Files have been recovered and checked for integrity; final academic, visual and interactive QA remains unverified. The 189-lesson course plan does not mean 189 lesson packs are available.
Families and Households
- FAM-L001 · Available for review
What is Sociology?
Distinguish sociological explanation from common sense. Apply norms, values, status and role; link a pattern to a testable question.
- FAM-L002 · Available for review
How does society shape us?
Explain how an agent of socialisation shapes behaviour through a mechanism. Recognise agency and variation in outcomes.
- FAM-L003 · Available for review
Sociological perspectives
Compare consensus, conflict and social-action approaches. Interpret one family case through two perspectives and identify evidence needed.
- FAM-L004 · Available for review
What do we mean by family?
Distinguish family, household and kinship. Apply a stated definition and explain who it includes or excludes.
- FAM-L005 · Available for review
Is there a ‘normal’ family?
Separate prevalence from judgements about normality. Read a percentage using the correct denominator and recognise diversity within forms.
- FAM-L006 · Available for review
How do sociologists investigate families?
Compare quantitative and qualitative evidence. Justify a method using validity, reliability, sampling and ethical safeguards.
- FAM-L007 · Available for review
Why might society need families?
Explain functionalism and Murdock’s four functions. Apply two functions and question whether families are necessary to provide them.
- FAM-L008 · Available for review
How does the family support industrial society?
Explain Parsons’ functional fit and proposed family roles. Test assumptions about industrialisation, mobility and gender.
- FAM-L009 · Available for review
Does the family benefit everyone?
Distinguish a contribution from necessity and universal benefit. Evaluate functionalist claims using distribution and counterexamples.
- FAM-L010 · Available for review
Does capitalism need the family?
Explain Marxist links between family life, capitalism, inheritance, ideology and consumption. Distinguish a theory from established fact.
- FAM-L011 · Available for review
How does the family reproduce inequality?
Explain how family resources can reproduce class inequality. Distinguish income from wealth and correlation from causation.
- FAM-L012 · Available for review
Is the family patriarchal?
Apply patriarchy to domestic labour and power. Explain gendered care using a case while recognising differences between households.
- FAM-L013 · Available for review
Do feminists agree about the family?
Compare liberal, Marxist and radical feminist explanations. Link each diagnosis to change and use intersectionality to qualify generalisations.
- FAM-L014 · Available for review
Are relationships becoming more individualised?
Explain individualisation and late-modern relationship arguments. Distinguish these from postmodern accounts and evaluate unequal choice.
- FAM-L015 · Available for review
Can personal relationships explain family life?
Use Smart and Finch to explain connectedness and recognition. Relate personal meanings to material conditions and enduring obligations.
- FAM-L016 · Available for review
How diverse are families?
Apply the Rapoports’ dimensions of diversity. Distinguish life-course, cohort and period differences without treating culture as fixed.
- FAM-L017 · Available for review
Has family diversity become normal?
Distinguish prevalence, acceptance and desirability. Evaluate diversity using competing accounts, appropriate denominators and continuity over time.
- FAM-L018 · Available for review
Why has marriage changed?
Interpret marriage measures, explain two possible causes of change and distinguish postponement from non-marriage.
- FAM-L019 · Available for review
Why do couples cohabit?
Explain different cohabitation pathways, interpret an estimate with uncertainty and evaluate choice within constraints.
- FAM-L020 · Available for review
Why does divorce happen, and what changes afterwards?
Distinguish separation from divorce, explain social causes and evaluate varied consequences through specific mechanisms.
- FAM-L021 · Available for review
How have same-sex relationships changed family life?
Distinguish legal and social recognition, apply personal-life concepts and test claims about equality.
- FAM-L022 · Available for review
Why do lone-parent families differ?
Explain routes into lone parenthood, interpret the category accurately and connect resources with varied experiences.
- FAM-L023 · Available for review
How do families connect across households?
Distinguish reconstituted and extended ties, map care across households and evaluate residence-based categories.
- FAM-L024 · Available for review
Domestic labour
Distinguish paid work, housework and care. Compare conjugal-role arguments and explain how gender expectations shape domestic labour.
- FAM-L025 · Available for review
Equality in domestic labour
Evaluate claims that domestic labour has become more equal. Compare evidence, measures and explanations, including work and childcare conditions.
- FAM-L026 · Available for review
Dual burden and emotion work
Distinguish dual burden, emotion work and organising care. Explain why hours alone may miss unequal responsibility.
- FAM-L027 · Available for review
Decision-making and power
Distinguish visible decision-making from power over agendas and options. Evaluate explanations of unequal influence within relationships.
- FAM-L028 · Available for review
Money and financial power
Distinguish access to money, management and control. Explain how income, care, entitlements and dependence may shape financial power.
- FAM-L029 · Available for review
Domestic abuse
Explain sociological accounts of domestic abuse and coercive control. Evaluate evidence limits and avoid explanations that blame those harmed.
- FAM-L030 · Available for review
Childhood as a social construction
Explain childhood as a social construction. Compare expectations across time and social contexts while distinguishing age from social status.
- FAM-L031 · Available for review
Historical childhood
Evaluate accounts of historical childhood, including Ariès. Explain how evidence and class differences affect claims about change.
- FAM-L032 · Available for review
Has childhood improved?
Evaluate whether childhood has improved. Connect protection, education and family policy with unequal experiences and adult control.
- FAM-L033 · Available for review
Childhood inequalities
Explain differences in childhood experiences and opportunities. Apply intersecting inequalities without treating groups as homogeneous.
- FAM-L034 · Available for review
Age patriarchy
Explain age patriarchy and adult control over children’s lives. Evaluate agency, dependence and differences between contexts.
- FAM-L035 · Available for review
Modern childhood
Evaluate competing explanations of contemporary childhood. Relate media, consumption and policy to child-centredness, inequality and risk.
- FAM-L036 · Available for review
Birth rate
Distinguish birth rate, fertility and family size. Explain UK change since 1900 through economic, cultural, gender and policy factors.
- FAM-L037 · Available for review
Death rates and life expectancy
Distinguish death rates from life expectancy. Explain UK change since 1900 and social inequalities, allowing for population age structure.
- FAM-L038 · Available for review
Ageing population
Explain population ageing and its implications for families. Evaluate dependency, care and policy arguments without treating older people as a burden.
- FAM-L039 · Available for review
Migration globalisation and families
Distinguish immigration, emigration and net migration. Explain population change and transnational family practices, recognising policy constraints and inequalities.
- FAM-L040 · Available for review
How do social policies shape family life?
Define social policy and distinguish intentions, mechanisms and outcomes. Explain effects on family formation, care and resources using dated, jurisdiction-specific examples.
- FAM-L041 · Available for review
How do sociologists explain family policy?
Compare functionalist, New Right, feminist and Marxist accounts of family policy. Explain assumptions about care, dependence, gender and class; test their limits.
- FAM-L042 · Available for review
How far can policy change family life?
Evaluate policy effects across families and distinguish design, access, take-up and outcomes. Use a UK and international comparison without assuming policy alone causes change.
- FAM-L043 · Available for review
Synoptic challenge
Connect theories, evidence and state policy across the module. Select relevant material and build a sustained evaluative argument.
- FAM-L044 · Available for review
Timed assessment
Apply knowledge accurately under timed conditions. Interpret an item and sustain analysis and evaluation across the module.
- FAM-L045 · Available for review
Feedback and mastery
Use feedback to diagnose errors and improve reasoning. Demonstrate retention and transfer through a fresh task.
Education with Theory and Methods
- EDU-L001 · Available for review
Education as a social institution
Distinguish schooling from education and connect socialisation to unequal opportunity.
- EDU-L002 · Available for review
Durkheim and social solidarity
Explain shared values and specialist skills without assuming universal agreement.
- EDU-L003 · Available for review
Parsons and meritocracy
Distinguish particularistic and universalistic standards and examine role allocation.
- EDU-L004 · Available for review
Human capital and the economy
Explain skills investment and evaluate the link between qualifications and employment.
- EDU-L005 · Available for review
Marxism and correspondence
Explain how school organisation may reproduce workplace relations.
- EDU-L006 · Available for review
Resistance and social reproduction
Evaluate Willis's interpretation of resistance and its consequences.
- EDU-L007 · Available for review
Measuring educational achievement
Interpret attainment gaps using the correct population, measure and period.
- EDU-L008 · Available for review
Material resources and achievement
Explain how housing, income and study conditions may affect learning.
- EDU-L009 · Available for review
Cultural explanations of class differences
Evaluate language and parental-knowledge explanations without deficit assumptions.
- EDU-L010 · Available for review
Cultural capital and habitus
Apply Bourdieu to institutional recognition and unequal advantage.
- EDU-L011 · Available for review
Labelling and teacher expectations
Explain how labels can affect interaction and opportunity without assuming inevitability.
- EDU-L012 · Available for review
Grouping and the organisation of learning
Evaluate setting, streaming and access to curriculum.
- EDU-L013 · Available for review
Pupil subcultures and identities
Explain different responses to schooling and avoid fixed group stereotypes.
- EDU-L014 · Available for review
Class achievement explanations in combination
Evaluate interactions between external resources and school processes.
- EDU-L015 · Available for review
Gender patterns in attainment and choices
Interpret gender patterns without treating group averages as innate differences.
- EDU-L016 · Available for review
Changes beyond school and gender
Explain how employment, expectations and family change may affect educational participation.
- EDU-L017 · Available for review
Gendered experiences within school
Evaluate curriculum, interaction and identity in explanations of gender patterns.
- EDU-L018 · Available for review
Gender identities and subject choice
Explain how peer cultures and institutional options shape choices.
- EDU-L019 · Available for review
Ethnicity and achievement patterns
Interpret heterogeneous attainment patterns and distinguish ethnicity from other variables.
- EDU-L020 · Pack not available
Racism and institutional processes
Explain possible mechanisms linking racism, expectations and opportunity.
- EDU-L021 · Pack not available
Ethnicity and explanations beyond school
Evaluate cultural, material and migration-related explanations in context.
- EDU-L022 · Pack not available
Achievement as an intersectional question
Evaluate how class, gender and ethnicity interact in educational experiences.
- EDU-L023 · Pack not available
Selection and the structure of education
Explain how selection criteria shape access and experiences over time.
- EDU-L024 · Pack not available
Marketisation and parental choice
Evaluate how competition and choice may change access and school behaviour.
- EDU-L025 · Pack not available
Privatisation and educational provision
Distinguish private influence within public systems from private schooling.
- EDU-L026 · Pack not available
Policies for equality
Evaluate targeted provision using access, implementation and outcomes.
- EDU-L027 · Pack not available
Globalisation and education policy
Explain how international comparisons, labour markets and policy borrowing may influence education.
- EDU-L028 · Pack not available
Researching school experiences
Select a feasible method for a specific educational question.
- EDU-L029 · Pack not available
Education section assessment
Apply concepts to short answers, item analysis and extended evaluation.
- EDU-L030 · Pack not available
Education feedback and transfer
Use assessment evidence to repair misconceptions and improve reasoning.
- EDU-L031 · Pack not available
Questions hypotheses and research design
Operationalise a question; distinguish hypotheses from findings, primary from secondary sources and quantitative from qualitative data.
- EDU-L032 · Pack not available
Sampling and representativeness
Evaluate sampling frames, selection and non-response.
- EDU-L033 · Pack not available
Ethics and access in education research
Explain consent, assent, confidentiality and power in research with learners.
- EDU-L034 · Pack not available
Positivism interpretivism and social facts
Connect epistemological assumptions to research decisions.
- EDU-L035 · Pack not available
Questionnaires in educational settings
Evaluate standardisation, wording and participation in a specific setting.
- EDU-L036 · Pack not available
Structured interviews in context
Explain how interviewer control may affect comparability and participation.
- EDU-L037 · Pack not available
Unstructured and semi structured interviews
Evaluate depth, interpretation and relationships in education research.
- EDU-L038 · Pack not available
Group interviews and focus groups
Evaluate interaction as both data and a potential constraint.
- EDU-L039 · Pack not available
Participant observation
Evaluate access, participation and interpretation in school settings.
- EDU-L040 · Pack not available
Non participant and structured observation
Evaluate observation schedules and the meaning of visible behaviour.
- EDU-L041 · Pack not available
Experiments and educational research
Distinguish laboratory, field and naturally occurring comparisons.
- EDU-L042 · Pack not available
Official statistics and secondary data
Evaluate definitions, coverage and administrative purposes.
- EDU-L043 · Pack not available
Documents and content analysis
Evaluate personal, institutional and online documentary evidence.
- EDU-L044 · Pack not available
Longitudinal and comparative designs
Distinguish cohort, cross-sectional and repeated-measure evidence.
- EDU-L045 · Pack not available
Triangulation and mixed methods
Justify combining sources while evaluating disagreement.
- EDU-L046 · Pack not available
Methods in Context item analysis
Apply a specified method to the actual participants, setting and research issue.
- EDU-L047 · Pack not available
Methods in Context timed practice
Evaluate a specified method in a sustained contextual argument.
- EDU-L048 · Pack not available
Methods feedback and design transfer
Use feedback to improve research judgement in a new educational context.
- EDU-L049 · Pack not available
Consensus conflict and structure
Compare assumptions about order, power and institutional constraint.
- EDU-L050 · Pack not available
Social action and meaning
Explain verstehen, interaction and the formation of shared meanings.
- EDU-L051 · Pack not available
Feminisms and sociological knowledge
Evaluate how gendered power shapes questions, methods and interpretation.
- EDU-L052 · Pack not available
Structure and agency in combination
Evaluate attempts to connect patterned constraints and action.
- EDU-L053 · Pack not available
Modernity postmodernity and late modernity
Distinguish claims about social change and the scope of theory.
- EDU-L054 · Pack not available
Sociology and science
Evaluate competing criteria for scientific knowledge.
- EDU-L055 · Pack not available
Objectivity values and reflexivity
Distinguish value relevance, bias and evidence-based judgement.
- EDU-L056 · Pack not available
Sociology and social policy
Evaluate the relationship between research, interests and policy decisions.
- EDU-L057 · Pack not available
Theory and Methods cumulative practice
Integrate methodological assumptions, theoretical perspectives and evidence.
- EDU-L058 · Pack not available
Paper 1 synthesis
Select relevant material across Education, MIC and Theory and Methods.
- EDU-L059 · Pack not available
Paper 1 assessment preparation
Apply feedback to planning, item use and time allocation.
- EDU-L060 · Pack not available
Families retention and synoptic connections
Retrieve the earlier option and connect family resources to education.
- EDU-L061 · Pack not available
Year 1 Paper 1 assessment first allocation
Demonstrate independent knowledge, application and evaluation.
- EDU-L062 · Pack not available
Year 1 Paper 1 assessment completion
Complete assessment and identify areas requiring review.
- EDU-L063 · Pack not available
Year 1 feedback and preparation for Beliefs
Act on marked evidence and establish a retention plan for Year 2.
Beliefs in Society
- BEL-L001 · Pack not available
Religion belief and sociological definitions
Compare substantive, functional and social-constructionist definitions across Christian and non-Christian traditions.
- BEL-L002 · Pack not available
Ideology science and knowledge
Distinguish different claims to knowledge and authority.
- BEL-L003 · Pack not available
Religion and social integration
Explain Durkheim's sacred-profane distinction and collective rituals.
- BEL-L004 · Pack not available
Religion as support and meaning
Explain Malinowski's and Parsons's accounts of uncertainty and meaning.
- BEL-L005 · Pack not available
Marxism and religion
Explain ideology, alienation and legitimation while recognising ambivalent effects.
- BEL-L006 · Pack not available
Feminisms and religion
Evaluate patriarchal organisation, symbolism and women's agency.
- BEL-L007 · Pack not available
Weber religion and social change
Explain the proposed link between religious ideas and economic conduct.
- BEL-L008 · Pack not available
Religion in movements for change
Evaluate when belief supports resistance or social stability.
- BEL-L009 · Pack not available
Theories of religion checkpoint
Compare explanations and use evidence to reach a qualified judgement.
- BEL-L010 · Pack not available
Churches denominations sects and cults
Compare sociological organisational types without using pejorative labels.
- BEL-L011 · Pack not available
Sect development and membership
Explain possible relationships between marginalisation, commitment and organisation.
- BEL-L012 · Pack not available
New religious movements
Explain diversity in movements and members' relationships with wider society.
- BEL-L013 · Pack not available
New Age spirituality and individual belief
Evaluate individualised practices and their organisational context.
- BEL-L014 · Pack not available
Measuring belief practice and belonging
Interpret religious data using measures, place and period.
- BEL-L015 · Pack not available
Secularisation and social change
Explain declining religious influence through differentiation and rationalisation.
- BEL-L016 · Pack not available
Arguments against simple religious decline
Evaluate religious-market, vicarious-religion and believing-without-belonging claims.
- BEL-L017 · Pack not available
Religious revival and post secular claims
Evaluate revival, visibility and public influence without conflating them.
- BEL-L018 · Pack not available
Secularisation assessment and feedback
Evaluate competing interpretations using appropriately contextualised evidence.
- BEL-L019 · Pack not available
Class and religious participation
Explain possible associations between resources, insecurity and participation.
- BEL-L020 · Pack not available
Gender and religion
Evaluate socialisation, care, status and agency in gendered patterns.
- BEL-L021 · Pack not available
Ethnicity migration and religion
Explain links between identity, belonging, exclusion and religious organisation.
- BEL-L022 · Pack not available
Age generations and religious change
Distinguish ageing, cohort replacement and period effects.
- BEL-L023 · Pack not available
Globalisation and religious networks
Explain transnational organisation, communication and local reinterpretation.
- BEL-L024 · Pack not available
Fundamentalism and global contexts
Evaluate identity, insecurity and political explanations of fundamentalism.
- BEL-L025 · Pack not available
Religion politics and cultural conflict
Evaluate religious claims within wider power and geopolitical relations.
- BEL-L026 · Pack not available
Beliefs topic assessment
Apply knowledge to explanation, item analysis and evaluation.
- BEL-L027 · Pack not available
Beliefs feedback and bridge to Crime
Improve a response and connect belief, norms and social control.
Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods
- CRM-L001 · Pack not available
Crime deviance and social control
Distinguish legal definitions, social norms and formal or informal control.
- CRM-L002 · Pack not available
Measuring crime and victimisation
Compare police records, victim surveys and self-report studies.
- CRM-L003 · Pack not available
Functionalism and crime
Explain boundary maintenance, adaptation and regulation.
- CRM-L004 · Pack not available
Strain and blocked opportunities
Apply Merton's goals-means argument and distinguish adaptations.
- CRM-L005 · Pack not available
Subcultural explanations
Compare status-frustration and differential-opportunity accounts.
- CRM-L006 · Pack not available
Marxist explanations of law and crime
Explain selective criminalisation, inequality and enforcement.
- CRM-L007 · Pack not available
Critical criminology and social harm
Evaluate broader harm-based definitions and their methodological implications.
- CRM-L008 · Pack not available
Interactionism and labelling
Explain rule creation, selective reaction and possible deviant careers.
- CRM-L009 · Pack not available
Moral panics and amplification
Evaluate claims about media, public concern and social reaction.
- CRM-L010 · Pack not available
Right realist explanations
Explain rational choice, routine activity and control arguments.
- CRM-L011 · Pack not available
Left realism and relative deprivation
Explain marginalisation, relative deprivation and the square of crime.
- CRM-L012 · Pack not available
Explanations of crime checkpoint
Evaluate competing explanations against the same evidence.
- CRM-L013 · Pack not available
Class crime and enforcement
Distinguish recorded offending, victimisation and criminal-justice selection.
- CRM-L014 · Pack not available
Corporate and occupational crime
Explain organisational opportunities, power and the visibility of harm.
- CRM-L015 · Pack not available
Gender offending and control
Evaluate socialisation, opportunity, masculinity and control accounts.
- CRM-L016 · Pack not available
Ethnicity criminalisation and justice
Evaluate competing explanations of recorded patterns and institutional processes.
- CRM-L017 · Pack not available
Intersections in crime and victimisation
Explain how social positions combine to shape exposure and responses.
- CRM-L018 · Pack not available
Victimology and unequal recognition
Compare positivist and critical approaches to victims.
- CRM-L019 · Pack not available
Media representations and crime
Evaluate selection, framing and relationships between representation and fear.
- CRM-L020 · Pack not available
Globalisation and transnational crime
Explain how cross-border opportunities and enforcement limits shape crime.
- CRM-L021 · Pack not available
Digital crime and social control
Evaluate changing opportunities, harms and responses in digital settings.
- CRM-L022 · Pack not available
Green crime and environmental harm
Compare legal and harm-based approaches to environmental damage.
- CRM-L023 · Pack not available
State crime and human rights
Evaluate definitions, secrecy, power and research access.
- CRM-L024 · Pack not available
Prevention and surveillance
Compare situational, environmental and social prevention.
- CRM-L025 · Pack not available
Punishment and social order
Evaluate deterrence, rehabilitation, retribution and wider social functions.
- CRM-L026 · Pack not available
Criminal justice and other agencies
Explain how policing, courts, communities and support agencies shape responses.
- CRM-L027 · Pack not available
Crime social policy and evidence
Evaluate how research informs contested crime-control decisions.
- CRM-L028 · Pack not available
Crime section assessment
Apply explanation, item analysis and evaluation under timed conditions.
- CRM-L029 · Pack not available
Crime feedback and transfer
Improve a weak argument and apply it to a fresh issue.
- CRM-L030 · Pack not available
Researching crime and hidden populations
Evaluate access, sampling, trust and risks across research strategies.
- CRM-L031 · Pack not available
Research design and causal claims
Evaluate comparative, longitudinal and experimental reasoning.
- CRM-L032 · Pack not available
Structural and action theories revisited
Evaluate order, power and meaning across the four modules.
- CRM-L033 · Pack not available
Modernity late modernity and postmodernity revisited
Evaluate claims about uncertainty, identity and social transformation.
- CRM-L034 · Pack not available
Science and sociological explanation revisited
Evaluate testability, prediction, interpretation and knowledge development.
- CRM-L035 · Pack not available
Values objectivity and reflexivity revisited
Evaluate how values enter research and how claims remain accountable.
- CRM-L036 · Pack not available
Theory methods and policy in combination
Explain how theoretical commitments affect method and policy recommendations.
- CRM-L037 · Pack not available
Theory and Methods assessment
Apply explanation and evaluation to original extended-writing tasks.
- CRM-L038 · Pack not available
Theory and Methods feedback
Use marked evidence to strengthen comparison, application and judgement.
- CRM-L039 · Pack not available
Evidence and explanation across topics
Evaluate the relationship between a theoretical claim and the evidence supporting it.
- CRM-L040 · Pack not available
Whole course diagnostic and revision allocation
Identify secure knowledge and specific gaps across all assessed content.
- CRM-L041 · Pack not available
Families cumulative revision
Reconnect diversity, couples, childhood, demography and policy with theory.
- CRM-L042 · Pack not available
Education and MIC cumulative revision
Select context-specific evidence and method consequences.
- CRM-L043 · Pack not available
Beliefs cumulative revision
Compare theories, organisations, group patterns and global secularisation.
- CRM-L044 · Pack not available
Crime cumulative revision
Connect explanations, distributions, global harms and control.
- CRM-L045 · Pack not available
Theory and Methods cumulative revision
Integrate research design, epistemology, values and policy.
- CRM-L046 · Pack not available
Paper 1 mock first allocation
Demonstrate independent performance across Education, MIC and Theory and Methods.
- CRM-L047 · Pack not available
Paper 1 mock completion and reflection
Complete the paper and identify priority improvements.
- CRM-L048 · Pack not available
Paper 2 mock first allocation
Select and apply knowledge across Families and Beliefs.
- CRM-L049 · Pack not available
Paper 2 mock completion and reflection
Complete both topic sections and identify gaps in reasoning.
- CRM-L050 · Pack not available
Paper 3 mock first allocation
Demonstrate independent Crime and Theory and Methods reasoning.
- CRM-L051 · Pack not available
Paper 3 mock completion and reflection
Complete extended evaluation and diagnose performance across the paper.
- CRM-L052 · Pack not available
Feedback across all three papers
Use marked evidence to prioritise the most consequential improvements.
- CRM-L053 · Pack not available
Targeted reteaching and fresh application
Demonstrate improvement on previously insecure content.
- CRM-L054 · Pack not available
Final synthesis and independent readiness
Consolidate key distinctions, question reading and a sustainable revision routine.