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For Family, your essay focus areas include family diversity (the Rapoports' work), divorce patterns since 1945, and different family forms like nuclear, extended, and lone-parent families.
Education essays will focus on functionalist theories (Durkheim and Parsons), school processes like labelling and streaming, plus the work of Ball and Willis on teacher expectations.
Crime and Deviance covers the social construction of crime, Merton's anomie theory, Becker's labelling theory, and Heidensohn's work on female conformity in patriarchal societies.
Strategy Note: Even though these are your essay topics, you still need broader knowledge for the shorter questions!
Social Stratification focuses on functionalist theory (Davis and Moore), different interpretations of poverty, and the work of Townsend and Murray on relative deprivation and underclass theory.