Last Updated on August 7, 2026 by Karl Thompson
ReviseSociology has been running since 2014. It provides free revision notes, model answers and exam guidance covering the whole AQA A-level sociology specification (7192), and it’s used by around half a million students and teachers a year.
Everything on the site is written by Karl Thompson, who taught A-level sociology for eighteen years and examined all three AQA papers between 2005 and 2018.
Who this site is for
A-level sociology students. The bulk of the site. Topic notes, key thinkers, evaluation points and model answers for every unit on the AQA specification.
Teachers. Most of the material works as-is for lesson prep, cover work and homework. Departments are welcome to link to it.
Undergraduates and students on other courses. The research methods and social theory sections get a lot of use beyond A-level — from sociology undergraduates, and from psychology, criminology, education and nursing students who need the same methodological grounding.
How the site is organised
The main topic hubs follow the AQA specification:
- Paper 1 — Education, including Methods in Context, and Theory and Methods
- Paper 2 — Families and Households, Beliefs in Society, the Media, Culture and Identity, Globalisation and Global Development
- Paper 3 — Crime and Deviance, with Theory and Methods
Alongside those there are sections on research methods, social theory, and past papers and exam advice.
If you’re new to the subject, start with the introduction to sociology.
What’s free and what isn’t
The site is free and always has been. It’s funded by advertising, which means you can read everything here without paying for any of it.
There are also revision bundles for sale — over 200 pages of notes, 60 mind maps and 50 exemplar exam answers, organised and formatted so you can revise straight from them rather than clicking between pages. That’s the difference: the bundles aren’t extra information, they’re the same expertise arranged into something you can work through.
How this site is written
The A-level material — the topic notes, the model answers, the exam guidance — is written by me, drawing on eighteen years of teaching the subject and eight years of marking AQA papers. That’s the core of the site and it’s the part I stand behind personally.
Some of the wider material uses AI assistance in drafting. Everything published here is reviewed by me before it goes up.
The site has been running for twelve years and is checked against the current specification and each year’s papers. If you spot something that’s wrong or out of date, tell me and I’ll fix it.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong, out of date, or has been overtaken by a specification change, please say so — karlthompson30@gmail.com. Corrections get made.
For questions about bundle purchases, refunds or access, email the same address.
I first started using this blog to study when I started my A Level Sociology at RC. Now I’m two years into uni and still frequent your blog for notes as it is a far better resource than anything else out there (and besides, I know all the information I’ll need is here)! Thanks Karl for just being a star!
Hi,
Your resources are great. I have attempted to answer question 6 on the 2017 AS paper 1 but I do not know if I have answered it well enough. Would it be possible for you to have a look at my answer. If so could you please provide an email address where I can forward my written response.
Your help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks
I would be interested in the tuition thanks
Thank you Karl
Hi – credit any post to Karl Thompson, thanks!
Who is the author of this blog l need reference
These notes are really helping with my Sociology A level studies, thank you!
I’m finding this website to be incredibly helpful for my Sociology studies, thank you!
I have only just seen your site and believe that AS and Advanced Level students will find it really useful. Bearing in mind your intention to add one new item per day it is certainly a site to which students [and teachers] should regularly return . [I have added a link to your site from my site. Hope that is OK!]