MODEL ANSWER Assess policies that might be used to improve the provision of social care in the UK (25 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Extract F (lines 9–10) states ‘Some major UK businesses appear happier with permit trading than with alternative policies such as quotas on emissions or the taxation of fuel’. Using the data in the extracts and your knowledge of economics, evaluate the possible impact on UK businesses of policies to reduce pollution. (25 marks)

MODEL ANSWER 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)

MODEL ANSWER 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)

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students studying Belief Systems module. Includes: Interpretivism and Religion The social construction of reality Link to postmodernism Criticisms of Berger and Luckman Postmodernism and Religion Decline in meta-narratives Increasing secularisation spiritual shoppers syncretic religion increase in religious fundamentalism criticisms of postmodernist views

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 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 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 C and your knowledge of research methods,evaluate the strengths and limitations of using observations to investigate students subcultures. (20)

MODEL ANSWER Extract B (lines 12-13) states ‘The Government last night released research suggesting a US-EU agreement sweeping away trade barriers would particularly benefit the automotive, financial and chemical sectors’. With the help of a diagram, explain the extent to which the removal of a tariff might affect the volume of imports into the UK. (9 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 Includes: neoliberalism globalisation marketisation left wing views of education right wing views of education evaluating the impact of educational policies free schools

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)

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 studying Research Methods module. Includes: issues with researching different groups and settings in education Malcom Hill Researching classrooms- gatekeepers, peer groups

30 marker essay plan Crime and Deviance- Globalisation and Crime

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

MODEL ANSWER Outline and explain two reasons for girls achievement (10)