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 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)

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)

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

MODEL ANSWER Outline and explain two reasons why women appear to have a higher participation rate in religion than men (10)

MODEL ANSWER Identify and briefly explain two characteristics of NAMs (10 marks)

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Including: labelling and teacher racism pupils identities pupil responses and subcultures the ethnocentric curriculum selection and segregation

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

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