Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Including: external factors: - boys and literacy (+evaluation) - leisture time (+evaluation) - decline in traditional male working class jobs (+evaluation) internal factors: - feminisation of education (Sewell) (Ringrose) (+evaluation) - male role models (Francis) (Read) (+evaluation) - masculinity and anti-school subcultures) - attitudes to school work (+evaluation) - teacher labelling (+evaulation) - moral panic about boys (+evaluation) - Social class evaluation points

Exam question model answers and complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students Includes: Strengths and criticisms of Functionalism, Marxism and the New Right Model answers for: - Define the Myth of Meritocracy (2 marks) - Outline three ways in which the correspondence principle operates within school (6 marks) - Outline and explain two roles that education fulfills according to functionalists. (10 marks)

Aimed towards A-Level Sociology Students for support alongside classroom study. Includes: Key Terms Durkheim’s two functions of Education (Social Solidarity, Specialist Skills) Parson’s function of Education (Focal Socialising Agency) Davis and Moore’s function of Education (Role Allocation) Criticisms of Functionalist Arguments

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Including: Equal opportunities policies Selection and league tables Teacher labelling Liberal Feminism Radical feminism Symbolic capital Archer (2010) Hyper-heterosexual feminine identities Boyfriends Being “loud” Working class girls’ dilemma Successful working class girls

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Including: Material deprivation Cultural deprivation Compensatory education Operation Head Start Bernstein (1972) Sugarman (1970) Douglas (1964) Feinstein (2008) Cultural capital Material factors

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Includes: Becker’s Teacher Labelling theory, and criticisms Setting and Streaming Pro-school and Anti-school Subcultures

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Including: The roles of Vocational Education argued by Functionalists, Marxists and the New Right Criticisms of Vocational Education

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: types of interviews interviewer bias strengths and weaknesses of structured formal interviews strengths and weaknesses of semi-structured interviews strengths and weaknesses of unstructured informal interviews strengths and weaknesses of group interviews the interview as a social interaction

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: participant observation covert and overt observation structured and unstructured observation Griffin- acceptance ‘staying in’ and ‘getting out’ of participant observations strengths and weaknesses of participant observations Lacey (subcultures) Wright (ethnicity) advantages and disadvantages of observations

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: types of experiments lab experiments, advantages and disadvantages field experiments, advantages and disadvantages the comparative method, advantages and disadvantages examples of experiments in education (Rosenthal and Jacobsen) strengths and limitations of the study lab experiments in education (Harvey and Slatin, Mason)

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: issues with researching different groups and settings in education Malcom Hill Researching classrooms- gatekeepers, peer groups

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: Practicality of questionnaires Theoretical issues of questionnaires Reliability of questionnaires Interpretivists and questionnaires Detachment

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: what are official statistics? secondary sources the positivist love affair interpretivist suspicions examples of use further uses advantages and disadvantages political bias in statistics lack of control by researcher 2 case studies!

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Research Methods module. Includes: secondary data qualitative and quantitative documents advantages and disadvantages of using documents interpretivists and positivists

30 marker essay plan Crime and Deviance- Globalisation and Crime

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

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

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: The appeal of sects and world-rejecting NRMs The appeal of cults, world-affirming NRMs and NAMs Why have sects, cults, NRMs and NAMs grown? Postmodernist arguments Wallis, Weber, Stark and Bainbridge

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: substantive definition of religion, and criticisms functional definition of religion, and criticisms constructionist definition of religion, and criticisms