MODEL ANSWER Assess the strengths and limitations of using unstructured overt observation when investigating gender and classroom behaviour (20)

MODEL ANSWER Outline and explain two effects of globalization on religion (10)

MODEL ANSWER Outline and explain two perspectives that support the religion is a conservative force (10 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Outline and explain two reasons why sects appeal to marginalized groups. (10 marks)

MODEL ANSWERS Define the Myth of Meritocracy (2 marks) Outline three ways in which the correspondence principle operates within school (6marks) Explain what is meant by the term ‘vocational education’ (2 marks) Suggest three ways in which the education system contributes to the economy (6 marks) Suggest three criticisms of vocational educational and training (6 marks) Define the term ‘self fulfilling prophecy’ (2 marks) Define the term material deprivation’ (2 marks) Define the term ‘cultural deprivation’ (2 marks) Outline three ways in which social class affects educational achievement (6 marks) Outline three ways in which Sewell explains the ethnic differences in achievement (6 marks) Outline three criticisms of the cultural deprivation theory. (6 marks) Explain what is meant by the term ‘school ethos’ (2) Explain what is meant by the hidden curriculum (2) Explain what is meant by the term ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ (2)

MODEL ANSWER Outline and explain TWO reasons for gender differences in educational achievement (10 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Explain how the absence of property rights can worsen the environmental market failures of both pollution and the rapid depletion of natural resources (9)

MODEL ANSWER Explain how a monopsonistic public sector can lead to low pay for social care work (9 marks)

MODEL ANSWER 7. Extract E (lines 22–23) states that ‘The tendency for women to participate in low-productivity sectors is now a bigger factor in their low pay than discrimination’. With the help of a diagram, explain how the difference between the marginal revenue product of male and female workers might account for the lower average earnings of women. (9 marks)

MODEL ANSWER The economist Greg Mankiw has written that ‘society faces a trade-off between efficiency and equity. Efficiency means that society is getting the maximum benefits from its scarce resources. Equity means that those benefits are distributed fairly among society’s members. Often, when government policies are designed, these two goals conflict.’ Explain how a production possibility diagram can be used to illustrate some features of the fundamental economic problem (15 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Explain why a lack of competition is likely to lead to allocative and productive inefficiency in markets such as the market for energy (15 marks)

Aimed at GCSE and A Level Sociology students to support classroom study. (4 lesson bundle) Introduction: What is Sociology? What are Social Factors? Culture Lesson 1: Social Factors - DRCAGES (Disability, Race, Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality) Sociological Theory - Marxism, Functionalism, Feminism, Interactionism, New Right (political thinkers) -Marxism - Karl Marx and the Basis of Marxist Arguments - Key Terms - Criticisms of Marxism* Lesson 2: Feminism - Basis of Feminist Arguments - Key Terms - Types of Feminism (Liberal, Radical, Difference/Postmodernist, Marxist, Dual Systems) - Key Feminist Sociologists (Anne Oakley, Walby, Delphy and Leonard)* Lesson 3: The New Right - Beliefs about society - Liberal New Right - Conservative New Right*

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students Includes: Althusser (Education as an Ideological Status Apparatus) Bowles and Gintis (The Myth of Meritocracy) Bowles and Gintis (The Correspondence Principle) Willis (Learning to Labour study) Fordism and Post-Fordism Criticisms of Marxist Arguments

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: Marx and false class consciousness Religion as a force of alienation Religion as a conservative force Evaluation points

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: Functions of religion Durkheim, totemism and collective conscience Criticisms of Durkheim Malinowski, Parsons and Bellah (Neo-functionalism), with criticisms

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: Gender paradox Religious laws and customs Walby and De Beauvoir, Holm and Bowker, Aldridge Places of worship Religious organisations and the stained glass ceiling Sacred texts Radical feminist perspective Marxist feminist perspective Muslim feminist perspective Criticisms

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: religion and consensus religion and capitalism religion and patriarchy religion as a force for social change the protestant work ethic and the spirit of capitalism criticisms of Weber

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: The civil rights movement Bruce- taking the moral high ground, channeling dissent, acting as an honest broker, mobilising public opinion Nelson Neo-Marxist views- Gramsci and Maduro Liberation Theology Religious Fundamentalism Religious Fundamentalism as a force for change