Sociology: 'O' level/CSE/16+
Subtitle: Revision Cards
Publisher: Pan Books Ltd
Published: 1985
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 137
Table of contents: title: 1 What is sociology?; title: The aims and scope of sociology; title: Sociology as a science; title: social structure of social action?; title: Some concepts used in sociology; title: 2 Methods of sociol investigations; title: The relationshipe between theory and method; title: primary and secondary sources; title: Questionnaires; title: Interviewing; title: Secondary sources; title: Longtitudinal studies; title: Observation; title: Statistical techniques - sampling; title: A return to theory; title: 3 Social stratification and mobility; title: Systems ofstratification; title: Social class and social status; title: Factors in the class structure; title: Social mobility; title: The distribution of income and wealth; title: 4 Poverty; title: Some definitions of poverty; title: Some charicteristics of the poor; title: The life-cycle of poverty; title: The cycle of deprivation or disadvantage; title: The culture of poverty; title: Poverty and social class; title: Conclusion; title: 5 the family and marriage; title: definitions of the family; title: Family functions; title: family structures; title: The family and social class; title: Relationships within the family; title: Marriage; title: Divorce; title: family stability; title: 6 Women in society; title: Biological and social explanations of women's roles; title: Socialization; title: The changing position of women in society; title: Women at work; title: 7 Population; title: demography and the social scientist; title: Fertility - a matter of births; title: mortality - a matter of deaths; title: births and deaths - class differences; title: Population changes in Britain since 1801; title: Migration; title: population structure and distribution; title: The consequences of population change; title: 8 education and schooling; title: The development of the British education system; title: the social functions of schools; title: The structure of education in Britain today; title: Equality of opportunity; title: Education and social class; title: Compensatory education; title: Gender and schooling; title: race and schooling; title: 9 Age groups and youth culture; title: Youth in pre-industrial societies; title: Youth un industrial society; title: Reasons for the emergence of age-groups; title: Age-groups or youth culture?; title: The significance of music in youth cultures; title: Conclusion; title: 10 Mass media; title: Mass communication and mass media; title: Characteristics of mass communication; title: The media and socialization; title: Mass media and attitudes; title: 11 Work and industry; title: What is work?; title: Why do people work?; title: Attitudes to work; title: Alienation; title: Inequality in the work place; title: Trade unions; title: Work and non-work; title: 12 Government and the political process; title: Democracy and dictatorship; title: Democracy in Great Britain; title: Government in Great Britain; title: Political parties; title: Voting behaviour; title: Opinion polls; title: Pressure groups; title: Political parties and pressure groups; title: 13 Social stability and control; title: The concepts of social order and social control; title: Conformity and deviance; title: Formal and informal social control; title: Agencies of social control; title: 14 Crime and deviance; title: Differences between crime and devience; title: Explanations of criminal behaviour; title: The young offender; title: crime and social class; title: Official statistics on crime; title: Crime and the media; title: 15 three processes of social change; title: Industrializatio; title: Urbanization; title: Secularization; title: Conclusion