Sociology

Applications Open: 13th November, 2025

Applications Close: 31st January, 2026

Entry Requirements: These are unique to each subject (located on the subject information page).

How to Apply: Please apply via KentChoices

You should only choose one subject per options block with a maximum of three subjects overall.

This specification is designed to encourage candidates to:

• Acquire knowledge and a critical understanding of contemporary social processes and social changes.

• Investigate facts through research and use deduction and critical thinking.

• Use evidence to make reasoned arguments on societal issues.

Students will learn about:

• The role and purpose of education in society, exploring gender, social class, and ethnicity differences in school achievement

• Applying of sociological research methods to the study of education with reference to the economy and to state policies

• Changing patterns of marriage, cohabitation, separation, divorce, childbearing, and the life- course, and the diversity of contemporary family and household structures

• Different beliefs in society and how they are view around the world, how powerful is this particular social institution, how does religion affect all lives and opposing sociological theories and their views on religion.

• Different theories of crime, deviance, social order, and social control. The social distribution of crime and deviance by age, ethnicity, gender, locality, and social class, including recent patterns and trends in crime.

Paper 1 – 33%

Education 21%

Research Methods 12%

Paper 2 –

Families & Households 16.5% (option module)

Mass Media 16.5% (option module)

Paper 3

Crime & Deviance 21%

Theories & Methods 12%

Grade 4 in English Language and Mathematics.

The top six-degree courses taken by students who have an A-level in Sociology are Psychology, English Studies, Business Studies, Sociology, Law, and Teaching.

Sociology is a great choice of subject for people who want a career in marketing, advertising, PR, social work, nursing, journalism, law, or teaching.