MODEL ANSWER For a long time, supermarkets and other commercial firms have understood the benefits of behavioural economic concepts such as choice architecture and framing. The public sector has been slow off the mark, but at last governments are now taking advantage of the opportunities provided by nudging. Explain how rules of thumb and irrationality can affect consumers’ demand for goods and services (15 marks)

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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)

MODEL ANSWER Extract E (lines 4-6) states ‘the UK may soon be growing at an annual rate of between 3 and 4% and the Bank could not be certain when it might need to tighten policy.’ With the help of a diagram, explain why interest rates may need to rise if growth rates increase (9 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 Extract B (lines 7-8) states that increased openness of the UK economy has ‘weakened the usual link between the amount of spare capacity in an economy and inflationary pressure’. With the help of a diagram, explain why the level of spare capacity is usually inversely correlated with the amount of inflationary pressure in an economy. (9 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Extract E (lines 8 - 9) states that ‘the collapse in the oil price has had significant effects on the economy of Saudi Arabia‘. Using a diagram, explain the likely effect on growth, employment and inflation in Saudi Arabia of the recent collapse in the price of oil. (9 marks)

MODEL ANSWER 7. Extract E (lines 22–23) states that ‘The tendency for women to participate in low-productivity sectors is now a bigger factor in their low pay than discrimination’. With the help of a diagram, explain how the difference between the marginal revenue product of male and female workers might account for the lower average earnings of women. (9 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

MODEL ANSWER Outline and explain two perspectives that support the religion is a conservative force (10 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Outline and explain two functions of religion, according to functionalist sociologists (10 marks)

MODEL ANSWER Explain how the absence of property rights can worsen the environmental market failures of both pollution and the rapid depletion of natural resources (9)

MODEL ANSWER Explain how a monopsonistic public sector can lead to low pay for social care work (9 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)

MODEL ANSWER Applying material from Item I, analyse two ways in which religion benefits the ruling class (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 Includes: Ball and Youdell (2007) Political parties supporting privatisation Ethnicity and educational policy Mirza, Gillborn, Gove and New Right Similarities and continuities between government policies since 1979

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 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