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

MODEL ANSWER Outline and explain two reasons why women appear to have a higher participation rate in religion than men (10)

MODEL ANSWER Identify and briefly explain two characteristics of NAMs (10 marks)

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students Includes: neoliberalism globalisation marketisation left wing views of education right wing views of education evaluating the impact of educational policies free schools

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)

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: participant observation covert and overt observation structured and unstructured observation Griffin- acceptance ‘staying in’ and ‘getting out’ of participant observations strengths and weaknesses of participant observations Lacey (subcultures) Wright (ethnicity) advantages and disadvantages of observations

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: issues with researching different groups and settings in education Malcom Hill Researching classrooms- gatekeepers, peer groups

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: what are official statistics? secondary sources the positivist love affair interpretivist suspicions examples of use further uses advantages and disadvantages political bias in statistics lack of control by researcher 2 case studies!

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: secondary data qualitative and quantitative documents advantages and disadvantages of using documents interpretivists and positivists

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

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: Wallis World-affirming NRMs World-accommodating NRMs World-rejecting NRMs Criticisms of Wallis

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: New Age Movements Heelas Woodhead Reiki Crystal Therapy Links to Postmodernism Criticisms of Postmodernist seculatisation theory

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: The decline in church attendance amongst White Christians African-Caribbeans and Pentecostalism Asian religious groups and ethnic identity Why are ethnic minorities more religious? (cultural defence, cultural transition, religious socialisation etc.) Davie, Stark and Bainbridge, Jacobson and Mirza Criticisms- why ethnic minorities are not more religious

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: Facts and Figures Are older people more religious than the young? Voas and Crockett- the ageing effect, the generational effect, religious socialisation Opposing viewpoints Arweck and Beckford- virtual collapse of religious socialisation