Education Example Bank (AQA A Level Sociology) 2024 ed.

29 recent examples that can be used to support essays on a range of education topics, including:

• Cultural deprivation and class differences in educational achievement
• Material deprivation and class differences in educational achievement
• Marxism, reproducing class inequality, and its inevitability
• Ethnic differences in educational achievement
• Gender differences in educational achievement
• Functionalism and education for social solidarity
• Functionalism and education as ‘society in miniature’
• Functionalism and meritocracy
• Functionalism and schools selecting and allocating pupils to their future work
• Marxism and workers to serve the capitalist system
• New Right schools centred around competition and choice

May be used as a worksheet or booklet to support students to think about how they would use the examples in their essay writing.