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    These guides offer an overview of reading and self study for portions of the 'A' level course. They are intended to supplement your class notes and help you with revision. They remind you of some of the reading that you could do to support your study. The more that you can make knowledge your own, the better you will understand the work.  If you have any queries, please contact me.

Abusive families
Consensus and culture
Consensus and religion
Constructing the news
Cultural transmission in education
Education and socialisation
Education and training
Education policy
Ethnicities and identities
Ethnicity and culture
Explanations of family diversity
Family diversity
From school to work
Functionalist accounts of family change
Globalisation and culture
Inequality in education
Influence of owners of the media
Introducing media
Introducing religion
Is Sociology a science?
Learning social rules
Marx and Marxism
Marxism and religion
Media and audience theory
Media conglomerates
Media sex and violence debates
New religious movements
Norms, values and culture
Parents and children
Phenomenology and religion
Postmodernism and new age religions
Power and patriarchy
Recent demographic change
Religion and social control
Representation in the media
Secularisation
Social policy and the family
Socialisation
State regulation of the media
Study skills and sociology
Studying families
The changing nature of gender
Theories of education failure
Theory of media content
Typology of religious groupings
Weber and religion
What is sociology?