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Questions:
Using Extract A, calculate the total number of non-EU migrant workers employed in the UK in 2016. (2 marks)
Explain how the data in Extract A shows that the number of EU migrant workers in the UK has increased faster than the number of non-EU migrant workers in the UK. (4 marks)
Using the data in Extract D, calculate the percentage change in the price of oil from the lowest point in 2016 to the point at the end of the period. (2 marks)
Using the data in Extract A, calculate to one decimal place, the percentage change in the total net trade balance in goods with the UK’s top five trade partners from February-April 2012 to February-April 2013. (2 marks)
Explain how the data in Extract A shows that the UK is having more success in trading goods with the rest of the world than with Europe. (4 marks)
If UK GDP in 2012 was $2375 billion, use the data in Extract D to calculate, to the nearest $billion, the difference in forecast UK GDP between IMF’s initial and revised growth forecasts (2 marks)
Explain how the data in Extract D shows that the IMF has become less confident about growth rates (4 marks)
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Taking into account Extract D and the original evidence, do you support the view that more economic stimulus is necessary in the UK economy? Justify your argument (25 marks)
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Extract B (lines 7-8) states that increased openness of the UK economy has ‘weakened the usual link between the amount of spare capacity in an economy and inflationary pressure’.
With the help of a diagram, explain why the level of spare capacity is usually inversely correlated with the amount of inflationary pressure in an economy. (9 marks)
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Extract F (line 1) states that “The fall in oil prices has been a “net good” for the UK economy”.
Using the data in the extracts and your economic knowledge, assess the view a sustained fall in the price of oil can only have positive outcomes for the UK economy. (25 marks)
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Extract E (lines 8 - 9) states that ‘the collapse in the oil price has had significant effects on the economy of Saudi Arabia‘.
Using a diagram, explain the likely effect on growth, employment and inflation in Saudi Arabia of the recent collapse in the price of oil. (9 marks)
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Extract E (lines 4-6) states ‘the UK may soon be growing at an annual rate of between 3 and 4% and the Bank could not be certain when it might need to tighten policy.’
With the help of a diagram, explain why interest rates may need to rise if growth rates increase (9 marks)
Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students.
Including:
gender and subject choice
gender role socialisation
gender domains
gendered subject images
single-sex schooling
gender identity and peer pressure
gendered career options
gender, vocational choice and class
pupils’ sexual and gender identities
the male gaze
male peer groups
female peer groups (policing identity)
teachers and discipline
Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students.
Including:
the hidden curriculum
self-negating prophecy
Cicourel & Kitsuse: Ideal pupil
Official Curriculum
hidden curriculum
functionalist, marxist and feminist view of the hidden curriculum
Aimed towards A-Level Sociology students for support alongside classroom study.
Includes:
New Right views on society
Neoliberalism
Neoconservativism
1988 Education Reform Act
New Right Education Market
New Labour
Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students
Includes:
why do governments intervene in education?
aims of government intervention
1944 Education Act
11+ exams
comprehensive schools
school admissions and selection
Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students.
Including:
external factors:
- boys and literacy (+evaluation)
- leisture time (+evaluation)
- decline in traditional male working class jobs (+evaluation)
internal factors:
- feminisation of education (Sewell) (Ringrose) (+evaluation)
- male role models (Francis) (Read) (+evaluation)
- masculinity and anti-school subcultures)
- attitudes to school work (+evaluation)
- teacher labelling (+evaulation)
- moral panic about boys (+evaluation)
- Social class evaluation points
Exam question model answers and complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students
Includes:
Strengths and criticisms of Functionalism, Marxism and the New Right
Model answers for:
- Define the Myth of Meritocracy (2 marks)
- Outline three ways in which the correspondence principle operates within school (6 marks)
- Outline and explain two roles that education fulfills according to functionalists. (10 marks)
Aimed towards A-Level Sociology Students for support alongside classroom study.
Includes:
Key Terms
Durkheim’s two functions of Education (Social Solidarity, Specialist Skills)
Parson’s function of Education (Focal Socialising Agency)
Davis and Moore’s function of Education (Role Allocation)
Criticisms of Functionalist Arguments
Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students.
Including:
Material deprivation
Cultural deprivation
Compensatory education
Operation Head Start
Bernstein (1972)
Sugarman (1970)
Douglas (1964)
Feinstein (2008)
Cultural capital
Material factors
Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students.
Including:
The roles of Vocational Education argued by Functionalists, Marxists and the New Right
Criticisms of Vocational Education
Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module.
Includes:
types of experiments
lab experiments, advantages and disadvantages
field experiments, advantages and disadvantages
the comparative method, advantages and disadvantages
examples of experiments in education (Rosenthal and Jacobsen)
strengths and limitations of the study
lab experiments in education (Harvey and Slatin, Mason)
Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module.
Includes:
Practicality of questionnaires
Theoretical issues of questionnaires
Reliability of questionnaires
Interpretivists and questionnaires
Detachment