Unit 1: Education with Theory and Sociological Methods in Context • Achievement and class, gender, and ethnicity. • Teacher/pupil relationships, pupil subcultures, the hidden curriculum, and the organization of teaching and learning. • Education policies. • Sociological methods. • How sociologists research education. • Theoretical perspectives in Sociology. • Is Sociology a science? Unit 2: Topics in Sociology Culture and Identity • The socialisation process and the role of the agencies of socialisation. • Sources of self-identity and difference. • The relationship of identity to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, sexuality and social class in contemporary society. • Leisure, consumption, and identity. • Different conceptions of culture, including subculture, mass culture, high and low culture, popular culture and global culture. Belief • Different theories of ideology, science and religion. • The relationship between religious beliefs and social change and stability. • Cults, sects, denominations, churches and New Age movements. • Religion and class, gender, ethnicity and age. • The significance of religion in the modern world. Unit 3: Crime and Deviance (with Theory and Methods) • Different theories of crime, deviance, social order and social control. • Crime and deviance by age, ethnicity, gender, locality and social class, including recent patterns and trends in crime. • The mass media and crime, green crime, human rights and state crimes. • Crime control, prevention and punishment, victims, and the role of the criminal justice system and other agencies. • The development of Sociological theory including Functionalism, Marxism and Postmodernism. • Sociological methods