Specification points
WJEC GCSE Social Studies 3170QS
52 points in 4 topics, with WJEC's codes and titles.
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1 Unit 1: Society and Social Issues
- 1.1 Understanding society
- 1.1.1 Understanding societies
- 1.1.2 Understanding and transforming data about society
- 1.1.3 Understanding sustainability in society
- 1.1.4 Understanding socialisation in society
- 1.1.5 Understanding diversity in Wales
- 1.2 Political institutions, participation and citizenship
- 1.2.1 Political institutions
- 1.2.2 Political participation opportunities
- 1.2.3 Rights and responsibilities
- 1.3 Social issues in Wales and the World
- 1.3.1 Social Issues
- 1.3.2 Homelessness
- 1.3.3 Digital exclusion
- 1.3.4 Environmental inequality
2 Unit 2: Investigating Society and Social Issues
- 2.1 Exploring sources
- 2.1.1 Understanding sources
- 2.1.2 Assessing the credibility of sources
- 2.2 Researching social issues
- 2.2.1 Methods of investigating social issues
- 2.2.2 Data collection devices
- 2.2.3 Sampling
- 2.2.4 Ethics and managing risk
- 2.3 Communicating social issues
- 2.3.1 Displaying data about a social issue
- 2.3.2 Creating an artefact to communicate data about a social issue
3 Unit 3: Social Change in Contemporary Society
- 3.1 Social change
- 3.1.1 Exploring data on changing societies
- 3.1.2 Different types of society
- 3.1.3 Features of social change
- 3.1.4 Causes of social change
- 3.1.5 Impacts of social change
- 3.1.6 Globalisation as an overarching example of social change around the world
- 3.2 Social movements
- 3.2.1 Characteristics of social movements
- 3.2.2 Aberle’s categorisation of social movements
- 3.2.3 Stages in social movements
- 3.2.4 The impact of social movements in creating social change
- 3.2.5 Social change makers
4 Unit 4: Planning to Effect Social Change
- 4.1 Social action
- 4.1.1 Understanding social action
- 4.1.2 Methods of social action
- 4.1.3 Evaluating methods of social action
- 4.2 Planning for social action
- 4.2.1 Creating a social action plan
- 4.3 Analysing the effectiveness of social action
- 4.3.1 Gathering feedback on a planned social action
- 4.3.2 Drawing conclusions about the effectiveness of planned social action