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

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: Heelas- why NAMs appeal to the middle class Why sects and cults appeal to the working class Why the middle class join cults and world-affirming NRMs and NAMs Why the Church appeals to the middle class

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 studying Research Methods module. Includes: practical (time, access, skills, cost) ethical (informed consent, anonymity, confidentiality, protection from harm, social desirability) reliability validity examples representativeness theoretical- preferred by positivists or interpretivists

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 Applying material from Item A, analyse two reasons for the decline in traditional religious belief in the U.K (10)

MODEL ANSWER Applying material from Item I, analyse two ways in which religion benefits the ruling class (10 marks)

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

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

MODEL ANSWER Identify and explain two reasons why older people appear to be more religious than young people (10)

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