Sociology Essay
AS Sociology
Sociology
Nik Jorgensen
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Crown copyright © material is reproduced under Class Licence No. CO1 W 0000195 with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland;
Guardian News and Media Ltd for extracts from Ros Taylor, ‘Classes in non-traditional family life proposed by government’, The Guardian, 12.05.00. Copyright © Guardian News & Media Ltd
2000; Will Woodward, ‘Testing … testing … testing’, The Guardian 20.05.00. Copyright © Guardian
News & Media Ltd 2000; ‘Adoption boost for gay couples’, guardian.co.uk, 07.05.02. Copyright ©
Guardian News & Media Ltd 2002; and Anushka Asthana, ‘Religious schools “show bias for rich”’:
Middle class favoured, study shows: Faith schools deny selection claim’, The Observer, 02.03.08.
Copyright © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2008;
Philip Allan Updates for material from, ‘Gender differences in education: The underachievement of boys, Sociology Review, Vol. 8, Issue 1, Sept. 1998; and ‘Figure 2
Sociology
Nik Jorgensen
Text © Nelson Thornes Distance Learning 2010
Illustrations © Nelson Thornes Distance Learning 2010
All rights reserved. The copyright holders authorise ONLY users of NTDL AS Sociology to make photocopies for their own or their students’ immediate use within the teaching context. No other rights are granted without permission in writing from the publisher or under licence from the
Copyright Licensing Agency Limited, of Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS.
Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
Published in 2010 by:
Nelson Thornes Distance Learning
Delta Place
27 Bath Road
CHELTENHAM
GL53 7TH
United Kingdom
10 11 12 13 14 15 / 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Page make-up by diacriTech, Chennai, India
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Berforts Group
Acknowledgements
The authors and publishers wish to thank the following for permission to use copyright material:
Crown copyright © material is reproduced under Class Licence No. CO1 W 0000195 with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland;
Guardian News and Media Ltd for extracts from Ros Taylor, ‘Classes in non-traditional family life proposed by government’, The Guardian, 12.05.00. Copyright © Guardian News & Media Ltd
2000; Will Woodward, ‘Testing … testing … testing’, The Guardian 20.05.00. Copyright © Guardian
News & Media Ltd 2000; ‘Adoption boost for gay couples’, guardian.co.uk, 07.05.02. Copyright ©
Guardian News & Media Ltd 2002; and Anushka Asthana, ‘Religious schools “show bias for rich”’:
Middle class favoured, study shows: Faith schools deny selection claim’, The Observer, 02.03.08.
Copyright © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2008;
Philip Allan Updates for material from, ‘Gender differences in education: The underachievement of boys, Sociology Review, Vol. 8, Issue 1, Sept. 1998; and ‘Figure 2