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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)
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Explain how the absence of property rights can worsen the environmental market failures of both pollution and the rapid depletion of natural resources (9)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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15 LESSON BUNDLE of complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Includes key terms and studies, sociological perspectives, exam questions, and criticism and evaluation points.
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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