MODEL ANSWER Applying material from Item A and your own knowledge, evaluate the view that religion acts as a conservative force. (20 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Applying material from Item C and you own knowledge of research methods, evaluate the strengths and limitations of using interviews to investigate labelling (20)

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

MODEL ANSWER Applying material from Item B and your knowledge of research methods, evaluate the strengths and limitations of using covert participant observation to investigate pupils with behavioural difficulties (20)

MODEL ANSWER Evaluate the view that older people tend to be more religious than young people (20)

MODEL ANSWER Evaluate the claim that religion in Britain today is not declining; instead, it is changing form (20)

MODEL ANSWER Evaluate the view that women are the main consumers of religion (20)

Model Answer Applying material from Item A and your knowledge, evaluate sociological explanations for differences in religiosity between social groups (20 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*

MODEL ANSWER Applying the item and your own knowledge, evaluate sociological explanations of the relationship between globalisation and crime (30 marks)

30 marker essay plan Crime and Deviance- Globalisation and Crime

MODEL ANSWER Applying material from item A and your own knowledge. Evaluate the claim that factors outside the school are the main cause of some ethnic minority’s underachievement. (30 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)