Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students. Including: the hidden curriculum self-negating prophecy Cicourel & Kitsuse: Ideal pupil Official Curriculum hidden curriculum functionalist, marxist and feminist view of the hidden curriculum

Aimed towards A-Level Sociology students for support alongside classroom study. Includes: New Right views on society Neoliberalism Neoconservativism 1988 Education Reform Act New Right Education Market New Labour

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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: 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. 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 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: Practicality of questionnaires Theoretical issues of questionnaires Reliability of questionnaires Interpretivists and questionnaires Detachment

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

MODEL ANSWERS Questions: Using Extract A, calculate the total number of non-EU migrant workers employed in the UK in 2016. (2 marks) Explain how the data in Extract A shows that the number of EU migrant workers in the UK has increased faster than the number of non-EU migrant workers in the UK. (4 marks) Using the data in Extract D, calculate the percentage change in the price of oil from the lowest point in 2016 to the point at the end of the period. (2 marks) Using the data in Extract A, calculate to one decimal place, the percentage change in the total net trade balance in goods with the UK’s top five trade partners from February-April 2012 to February-April 2013. (2 marks) Explain how the data in Extract A shows that the UK is having more success in trading goods with the rest of the world than with Europe. (4 marks) If UK GDP in 2012 was $2375 billion, use the data in Extract D to calculate, to the nearest $billion, the difference in forecast UK GDP between IMF’s initial and revised growth forecasts (2 marks) Explain how the data in Extract D shows that the IMF has become less confident about growth rates (4 marks)

MODEL ANSWERS Questions: Using the data in Extract D (Figure 3), calculate the mean female labour force participation rate for the five countries listed. Give your answer to one decimal place. (2 marks) Explain how the data in Extract D (Figure 4) show that the degree of inequality between the pay of male and female workers is falling. (4 marks) Using the data in Extract D, calculate, to two decimal places, the percentage of world CO2 emissions generated by the UK. (2 marks) Explain how the data in Extract D show that the USA needs to reduce pollution more than other countries. (4 marks) Using the data in Extract D (Figure 3), calculate how much the median care worker earns for every pound earned by the median worker in the whole economy. Give your answer to the nearest penny. (2 marks) Explain how the data in Extract D (Figure 4) show that there is likely to be substantial upward pressure on the wages of care workers by 2041. (4 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Extract F (lines 14-17) states ‘Investment forecasts are being revised downward and on top of speculation of interest rate rises and criticism of the UK’s quantitative easing programme, the outlook is not looking as good as forecasts first indicated.’ Using the data in the extracts and your economic knowledge, evaluate the effectiveness of monetary policy in achieving macroeconomic stability in the UK. (25 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Extract C (lines 10-11) suggests that ‘Increased protectionism could be damaging as the UK is placing much of its hopes for export success on the growing Chinese market’. Using the data in the extracts and your economic knowledge, evaluate the view that the use of protectionism is inevitably damaging to economies. (25 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Evaluate the view that if markets can be made more contestable there is no need for further government intervention (25 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Extract C (line 15) states that due to globalisation, ‘for many workers in the West economic stagnation is actually now the new norm’. Using the data in the extracts and your economic knowledge, assess the view that globalisation has been entirely advantageous to the UK economy. (25 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Extract F (lines 19–20) notes that ‘The UK Government recognises the need to raise aspirations and attainment for girls’. Use the extracts and your knowledge of economics to evaluate the policies that the government might use to reduce the gender pay gap. (25 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Applying material from Item C and your own knowledge of research methods, evaluate the strengths and limitations of using written questionnaires to investigate the role of parents in their children’s achievement in school (20)

MODEL ANSWER Taking into account Extract D and the original evidence, do you support the view that more economic stimulus is necessary in the UK economy? Justify your argument (25 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Extract F (line 1) states that “The fall in oil prices has been a “net good” for the UK economy”. Using the data in the extracts and your economic knowledge, assess the view a sustained fall in the price of oil can only have positive outcomes for the UK economy. (25 marks)