Introduction to Small Business

Introduction to Economic Understanding

Topic 1.2 Showing enterprise

Topic 1.3 Putting a business idea into practice

Topic 1.4 Making the start-up effective

Topic 1.5 Understanding the economic context

Topic 5.2 Risk or certainty?

Topic 5.3 Big or small?

Topic 5.4 Is growth good?

Topic 5.5 Is the world fair?

Health, Social Care and Early Years Provision

Understanding Personal Development and

Relationships

groups

• The ways people can obtain services and

the possible barriers that could prevent

people from gaining access to services

• The types of services that exist to meet

client group needs and how they are

organised

• The principles of care that underpin all

care work

• The main work roles and skills of people

who provide health, social care and early

years services

and development

• The different factors that can affect human

growth and development

• The development of self-concept and

different types of relationships

• Major life changes and sources of support

• Economic methodology and the economic problem
• Price determination in a competitive market
• Production, costs and revenue
• Competitive and concentrated markets
• The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets

The national economy in a global context

• The measurement of macroeconomic performance
• How the macroeconomy works : the circular flow of income, AD/AS analysis, and related concepts
• Economic performance
• Macroeconomic policy

• Perfect competition, imperfectly competitive markets and monopoly
• The labour market
• The distribution of income and wealth: poverty and inequality

The national and international economy

• Financial markets and monetary policy
• Fiscal policy and supply-side policies
• The international economy

• What is business?
• Managers, leadership and decision making
• Decision making to improve marketing performance
• Decision making to improve operational performance
• Decision making to improve financial performance
• Decision making to improve human resource performance

• Analysing the strategic position of a business
• Choosing strategic direction
• Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies
• Managing strategic change

• Social order, social control
• Social change
• Conflict and consensus
• Social structure and social action
• The role of values
• The relationship between social and contemporary social policy

Sociology of education

• Structure and organisation of the education system
• Role and function of education in society
• Differential educational achievement
• Relationship between education and the economy
• education and social policy

A2 Unit G674: Exploring Social Inequality and Difference

Social inequality and difference, illustrated by the study of:

• Gender
• Class
• Ethnicity
• Age

Exploring sociological research on social inequality and difference:

• Practical concerns
• Theoretical issues.

• Social influence
• Memory
• Attachment
• Approaches in psychology
• Psychopathology
• Research methods

• Biopsychology
• Issues and debates in psychology

Options from:

Option 1

• Relationships
• Gender
• Cognition and development

Option 2

• Schizophrenia
• Eating behaviour
• Stress

Option 3

• Aggression
• Forensic psychology
• Addiction

• UK Politics: Democracy & participation, political parties, electoral systems, voting behavior, the media.
• Core Politics Ideas: Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism.
• UK Goverment: The Constitution, Prime Minister & the Executive, relationships between the branches of government.

• Non-core Political Ideas (one of the following): Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Feminism, Ecologism, Anarchism
• The Government and Politics of the USA: The US constitution, federalism, US congress, US presidency, US Supreme Court, civil rights, US democracy & participation, comparative theories.

• Bill to an Act
• EU Law
• Judicial Precedent
• Statutory interpretation

English Legal System  

• Police Powers
• Criminal and civil courts
• Sentencing
• Magistrates
• Jury
• Legal profession
• Appeals

• Special study pre-release  – one topic – Non fatal offences (every year topic changes)
• Principles of Criminal law – Actus reus and mens rea
• Offences – NFO, murder, robbery, theft & manslaughter.

Defences:

• Self Defence
• Automatism
• Insanity
• Duress
• Intoxication