This page lists what we actually have for AQA GCSE Sociology 8192. It is built from the live activities, so it is accurate on the day you read it.
Perspectives first, and this time the order is not optional
Nearly every subject page on this site can be read as a menu. Take what your class needs, in whatever order suits the term.
Sociology is the exception, and the reason is structural rather than a matter of taste. AQA examines the topics through the perspectives: a question about educational achievement expects a student to know what a Marxist account of it would look like, and what a functionalist would say instead, and why an interactionist would be looking at the classroom rather than the economy.
A student who learns the topics without the perspectives ends up with a set of unattributed opinions and no way to build an evaluative paragraph.
Two activities set that up. The four perspectives overview is exactly what it says. Conflict against consensus, with the classical sociologists, gives the historical spine: Durkheim, Marx and Weber, and why the disagreement between them is the subject rather than a preamble to it.
Set those two before anything else. The other fourteen are a menu after that.
Named sociologists, attached to ideas
AQA Sociology is one of the few GCSEs that expects students to attribute ideas to people, and to do it accurately enough that the attribution earns a mark.
These activities keep the names attached to the work rather than gathering them into a list to be memorised. Merton's strain theory has an activity of its own, taking the five adaptations one at a time, which is the right amount of room for an idea students routinely reduce to a single sentence. Life chances and poverty carries Devine, Townsend and Murray together, so the disagreement between them is visible. Labelling and social control does the same for the interactionist account of deviance.
The effect is that a student meets a name at the moment the idea needs one, which is how they are examined.
Research methods is a topic, not an appendix
Sociological research methods is a content area in its own right on this specification and is examined on both papers: sampling, the practical, ethical and theoretical strengths of each method, and the interpretation of data.
Two activities cover it, one on research design and methods and one on data interpretation and ethics. That is proportionate to its weight rather than generous, and it is more than the strand usually gets in a revision resource, because it is less fun to write than crime and deviance.
If your students also take Psychology, AQA GCSE Psychology has three activities on the same problem from the experimental side, and the contrast between how the two subjects treat evidence is worth a lesson in itself.
The longest activities
Four run to twenty-six or twenty-eight minutes: life chances and poverty, power, authority and patriarchy, educational achievement and processes, and functionalist stratification with class theory.
Those are the ones to set as homework rather than as a starter, and the ones most worth using when a class has learned the vocabulary of a topic without being able to argue inside it.
Using them
The three activities embedded further down are playable here without an account.
The lists below group by classroom use, worked out from what each activity contains. For how each is meant to be run, see ready-to-run revision activities. To put several in front of one class in the right order, build a sprint and share one link, which is the simplest way to enforce the perspectives-first rule described above. Everything else, by subject and board, is on the revision pages.
What this page does not do
It does not supply contemporary statistics. Sociology arguments want current figures and these activities lean on named studies and structures instead, which age more slowly but are not the same thing.
It does not mark extended writing. The tasks run thirty to a hundred and sixty words with a structure to follow, and a human still reads what comes out.
It is not a scheme of work. For a shape to drop these into, see how to structure a GCSE revision programme.
It does not track anything, so there is no completion list to check.