​Theory Specification:
• Demonstrate a wider range and greater depth of knowledge and understanding than at AS Level.
• Study the nature of sociological thought and methods of sociological enquiry in greater range and depth, and demonstrate more highly developed skills of application, analysis, interpretation and evaluation than at AS Level.
In addition, A2 candidates should examine:
• Consensus, conflict, structural and social action theories.
• The concepts of modernity and post-modernity in relation to sociological theory.
• The nature of science and the extent to which sociology can be regarded as scientific.
• The relationship between theory and methods.
• Debates about subjectivity, objectivity and value freedom.
• The relationship between sociology and social policy.