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

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 studying Research Methods module. Includes: secondary data qualitative and quantitative documents advantages and disadvantages of using documents interpretivists and positivists

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)

MODEL ANSWER Applying material from Item C and you own knowledge of research methods, evaluate the strengths and limitations of using interviews to investigate labelling (20)

MODEL ANSWER Assess the strengths and limitations of using unstructured overt observation when investigating gender and classroom behaviour (20)

MODEL ANSWER Outline and explain two effects of globalization on religion (10)

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 Outline and explain two reasons why sects appeal to marginalized groups. (10 marks)

MODEL ANSWERS Define the Myth of Meritocracy (2 marks) Outline three ways in which the correspondence principle operates within school (6marks) Explain what is meant by the term ‘vocational education’ (2 marks) Suggest three ways in which the education system contributes to the economy (6 marks) Suggest three criticisms of vocational educational and training (6 marks) Define the term ‘self fulfilling prophecy’ (2 marks) Define the term material deprivation’ (2 marks) Define the term ‘cultural deprivation’ (2 marks) Outline three ways in which social class affects educational achievement (6 marks) Outline three ways in which Sewell explains the ethnic differences in achievement (6 marks) Outline three criticisms of the cultural deprivation theory. (6 marks) Explain what is meant by the term ‘school ethos’ (2) Explain what is meant by the hidden curriculum (2) Explain what is meant by the term ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’ (2)

MODEL ANSWER Outline and explain TWO reasons for gender differences in educational achievement (10 marks)

Aimed at GCSE and A Level Sociology students to support classroom study. (4 lesson bundle) Introduction: What is Sociology? What are Social Factors? Culture Lesson 1: Social Factors - DRCAGES (Disability, Race, Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Sexuality) Sociological Theory - Marxism, Functionalism, Feminism, Interactionism, New Right (political thinkers) -Marxism - Karl Marx and the Basis of Marxist Arguments - Key Terms - Criticisms of Marxism* Lesson 2: Feminism - Basis of Feminist Arguments - Key Terms - Types of Feminism (Liberal, Radical, Difference/Postmodernist, Marxist, Dual Systems) - Key Feminist Sociologists (Anne Oakley, Walby, Delphy and Leonard)* Lesson 3: The New Right - Beliefs about society - Liberal New Right - Conservative New Right*

Complete lesson notes aimed towards A-Level Sociology students Includes: Althusser (Education as an Ideological Status Apparatus) Bowles and Gintis (The Myth of Meritocracy) Bowles and Gintis (The Correspondence Principle) Willis (Learning to Labour study) Fordism and Post-Fordism Criticisms of Marxist Arguments