AQA A-LEVEL SOCIOLOGY PAPER 2 TOPICS IN
SOCIOLOGY |UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Functionalism and Family 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Primary
socialisation - Parsons
Stabilisation of adult personalities - Parsons
Functional fit - Parsons
Economic - Murdock
Warm bath theory
Marxism and Family 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Ideological
control
Inheritance of property
Unit of consumption
Reproduction of workforce
Feminism and Family 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Social policy
DDL
Power and DA
Divorce/marriage - women's rights
New Right + Family 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Lone parents
breed delinquents
Policy should promote the nuclear family
Same sex couple act (not traditional)
Welfare dependency
,Postmodernism + family 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Social policy
Life course analysis
Sociology of personal life
Risk society
Fallacy of choice - surveillance and policy
Social Policy + family (tailor answers to question) 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER
✅✅✅Divorce reform act
Same sex marriage act
Contraception act
Equal pay act
Education acts
Children's Act
Married persons tax allowance
Theory views
Gender Division of Labour 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Gender DDL
Symmetrical family (equal roles)
Dual burden/triple shift
Commercialisation of housework
Power relationships and domestic violence 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER
✅✅✅still patriarchal - dual burden/triple shift
Decision making (men take role)
DA
Power difference between child and adult
,Demographics - birth rates 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Cost
Women working
Decline in infant mortality
Child-centred society
Lack of need for jobs in children sector
Demographics - death rates 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Better
health care
burden on women
Ageing population
Grey pound
Support with childcare- allows women to work
Demographics - migration 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Push
factors
Pull factors
Impact - positive (diversity/skilled workers)
Impact - negative (strain on services/increased racism)
Singlehood/Cohabitation/marriage/divorce 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER
✅✅✅Secularisation (less religion)
Social policy
Feminism
Changing attitudes - higher expectations
Decrease in divorce 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Cohabitation
, Symmetrical family
Equal pay/women's independence
Getting married later
Childhood - improving 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅smaller families
More child centred
Better services - health, education etc.
Children's right and laws
Childhood - getting worse 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Toxic
childhood
Age patriarchy
Legal controls over children
Stress and anxiety increased
Childhood - disappearing/blurring 10m plan - CORRECT ANSWER
✅✅✅becoming more adult like - clothes/makeup/activities
Children have access to adult knowledge and material
Childhood - social construction 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Cross
cultural differences
Historical differences
Difference in the same society - class/gender/ethnicity
Child abuse
Family Diversity - causes 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER
✅✅✅Secularisation
SOCIOLOGY |UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Functionalism and Family 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Primary
socialisation - Parsons
Stabilisation of adult personalities - Parsons
Functional fit - Parsons
Economic - Murdock
Warm bath theory
Marxism and Family 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Ideological
control
Inheritance of property
Unit of consumption
Reproduction of workforce
Feminism and Family 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Social policy
DDL
Power and DA
Divorce/marriage - women's rights
New Right + Family 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Lone parents
breed delinquents
Policy should promote the nuclear family
Same sex couple act (not traditional)
Welfare dependency
,Postmodernism + family 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Social policy
Life course analysis
Sociology of personal life
Risk society
Fallacy of choice - surveillance and policy
Social Policy + family (tailor answers to question) 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER
✅✅✅Divorce reform act
Same sex marriage act
Contraception act
Equal pay act
Education acts
Children's Act
Married persons tax allowance
Theory views
Gender Division of Labour 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Gender DDL
Symmetrical family (equal roles)
Dual burden/triple shift
Commercialisation of housework
Power relationships and domestic violence 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER
✅✅✅still patriarchal - dual burden/triple shift
Decision making (men take role)
DA
Power difference between child and adult
,Demographics - birth rates 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Cost
Women working
Decline in infant mortality
Child-centred society
Lack of need for jobs in children sector
Demographics - death rates 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Better
health care
burden on women
Ageing population
Grey pound
Support with childcare- allows women to work
Demographics - migration 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Push
factors
Pull factors
Impact - positive (diversity/skilled workers)
Impact - negative (strain on services/increased racism)
Singlehood/Cohabitation/marriage/divorce 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER
✅✅✅Secularisation (less religion)
Social policy
Feminism
Changing attitudes - higher expectations
Decrease in divorce 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Cohabitation
, Symmetrical family
Equal pay/women's independence
Getting married later
Childhood - improving 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅smaller families
More child centred
Better services - health, education etc.
Children's right and laws
Childhood - getting worse 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Toxic
childhood
Age patriarchy
Legal controls over children
Stress and anxiety increased
Childhood - disappearing/blurring 10m plan - CORRECT ANSWER
✅✅✅becoming more adult like - clothes/makeup/activities
Children have access to adult knowledge and material
Childhood - social construction 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER ✅✅✅Cross
cultural differences
Historical differences
Difference in the same society - class/gender/ethnicity
Child abuse
Family Diversity - causes 20m plan - CORRECT ANSWER
✅✅✅Secularisation
