• The role of structure and agency in shaping the relationship between the individual and society, including an awareness of the differences between structuralist and interactionist views.

Evaluate the relationship between the individual and society.

Evaluate the view that structural forces are more important in the relationship between the individual and society.

Explain two differences between structuralist and interactionist views.

Structuralists: how order and control are created and maintained, organisations determines peope’s behaviours (determinists)

Interacionists: individual forces shape society, no social forces, agency

• Factors explaining why individuals conform to social expectations, including sanctions, social pressure, self- interest and social exchange.

‘Individuals conform to social expectations’, explain and argue against

• The mechanisms through which order is maintained, including power, ideology, force and consensus.

Explain how social order is maintained and resisted.

• How sociologists explain deviance and non-conformity, including subcultures, under-socialisation, marginalisation, cultural deprivation and social resistance.

Evaluate cultural explanations of deviance. [26]