These comprehensive revision guides cover all of the specification points, with key terms, case study examples and evaluative arguments for the Paper 1 and 2 topics.
Examples are shown clearly through Past Paper answer keys.
Although directed for the CIE syllabus, this is applicable to the AQA, OCR and WJEC specifications.
Relevant for IGCSE, GCSE, AS and A2.
These comprehensive revision guides cover all of the specification points, with key terms, case study examples and evaluative arguments for the Paper 1 topics.
Examples are shown clearly through Past Paper answer keys.
Although directed for the CIE syllabus, this is applicable to the AQA, OCR and WJEC specifications.
Relevant for IGCSE, GCSE, AS and A2.
This comprehensive revision guide covers all of the specification points, with key terms, case study examples and evaluative arguments.
Examples are shown clearly through Past Paper answer keys.
Although directed for the CIE syllabus, this is applicable to the AQA, OCR and WJEC specifications.
Relevant for IGCSE, GCSE, AS and A2.
Content included:
The various forms of media
Role of advertising
Ownership and control of the media
Freedom and censorship in the media
Pluralist, Marxist and postmodernist perspectives on the nature and role of the media
Patterns of media use by gender, age, social class and ethnicity
Media representation of ethnicity, gender, age, class and disability
The role of the traditional/new media in shaping values, attitudes and behaviour with specific reference to television and violence, political beliefs and voting, patterns of consumption, gender stereotyping, traditional stereotyping, the influence of the Internet in areas such as social networking
Agenda setting, gate-keeping and stereotyping through the selection and presentation of the news
Explanations of the influence of the media: hypodermic syringe, audience selection, cultural effects and uses and gratifications models
Bias and distortion in the media, including propaganda and moral panics
Developments in the media including changes in ownership, globalisation, interactivity, the digital divide, diversification and convergence
Influence of media representations on the audience
This collection of comprehensive guides give students a full insight into the presentation of certain characters, their relationships, and a few themes in Of Mice and Men. The essay plans contain a range of analysis, covering context too - making it suitable for all exam boards including Edexcel IGCSE, AQA and WJEC.
Characters covered:
Crooks
Curley
Curley’s Wife
Slim
Candy
George
Lennie
Carlson
Relationships covered:
Curley and Curley’s wife
George and Lennie
Themes covered:
Prejudice
Importance of animals
Significance of setting
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This comprehensive revision guide covers all of the specification points, with key terms, case study examples and evaluative arguments.
Examples are shown clearly through Past Paper answer keys.
Although directed for the CIE syllabus, this is applicable to the AQA, OCR and WJEC specifications.
Relevant for IGCSE, GCSE, AS and A2.
Content included:
Structuralist, Interpretivist, Functionalist, Marxist, and Feminist views on society.
Distinction between Positivist and Interpretivist approaches to research
Main steps and challenges in devising and implementing a research strategy, such as sampling
Ethical issues affecting the choice and implementation of a strategy
The main methods used in sociological investigations; as well as their strengths and limitations
Differences between primary and secondary sources; their strengths and limitations
Differences between qualitative and quantitative sources; their strengths and limitations
BUY THE IGCSE PAPER 1 BUNDLE HERE: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/cie-sociology-notes-igcse-paper-1-13002933
This comprehensive revision guide covers all of the specification points, with key terms, case study examples and evaluative arguments.
Examples are shown clearly through Past Paper answer keys.
Although directed for the CIE syllabus, this is applicable to the AQA, OCR and WJEC specifications.
Relevant for IGCSE, GCSE, AS and A2.
Content included:
Culture, norms, values, roles, status and beliefs as social constructions; relativity
Conformity and non-conformity; the agencies and processes of social control
The formation and existences of sub-cultures
Diversity and cultural variation in human behaviour and issues related to multiculturalism
Age as an example of social construction
Processes through which children learn social expectations
Main agencies of socialisation and their impact on the individual, including the consequences of inadequate socialisation (feral children)
The nature/nurture debate
Role, age, gender, ethnic group and class as influences on social identity