Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: Social and cultural diversity Church attendance statistics and reliability Surveys and social desirability Surveys and reliability Ethnocentric bias

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: Positivism and Interpretivism Primary and Secondary data Qualitative and Quantitative data Factors influencing choice of methods (Practical, Ethical, Theoretical etc.)

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: Key Terms Comte, Weber and Marx Durkheim- rationalism and disenchantment Parsons- structural differentiation Bruce- “God is Dead”

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: Key Terms Characteristics of open belief systems Characteristics of closed belief systems Popper- science as an open belief system Khun- science as a closed belief system

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: Positivism Interpretivism Triangulation Ethical Issues

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: validity and reliability aims and hypotheses pilot studies types of sampling

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: Reigious Organisations The Church Denominations Religious Cults

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

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

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: The appeal of sects and world-rejecting NRMs The appeal of cults, world-affirming NRMs and NAMs Why have sects, cults, NRMs and NAMs grown? Postmodernist arguments Wallis, Weber, Stark and Bainbridge

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: substantive definition of religion, and criticisms functional definition of religion, and criticisms constructionist definition of religion, and criticisms

MODEL ANSWER Applying material from Item C and your own knowledge of research methods, evaluate the strengths and limitations of using written questionnaires to investigate the role of parents in their children’s achievement in school (20)

MODEL ANSWER Applying material from Item C and your knowledge of research methods,evaluate the strengths and limitations of using observations to investigate students subcultures. (20)