Using material from item A and elsewhere‚ assess the view that the education system exists mainly to select and prepare young people for their future work roles. (20 marks) Some people believe that the education system exists mainly to select and prepare younger people for their future work roles. Item A agrees with this idea as it says that education teaches people to perform “a vital role in modern societies”‚ while family life gives people the ability to play a role as a “functioning member
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Using material from item A and elsewhere‚ assess the view that factors and processes within the school are the main cause of differences in the educational achievement of different social groups It is apparent that most of the studies carried out by numerous sociologist came to the same assumption that middle class pupils tend to do alot better than working class in terms of educational achievement. Pupils from middle class backgrounds tend to pass more academic exams‚ stay on for further education
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criminals or deviants themselves. Over-representation of certain types of crimes may lead to heightened fear of these crimes by the public. In some cases‚ moral panics may also result in a change in the law." 01. Using material from Item A and elsewhere‚ assess sociological explanations of the role of the mass media in creating moral panics about crime and deviance (21 marks). The Media are often the subject of claims that they cause crime and deviance through their devotion to exaggerating the
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Carrying out research by field experiment means the researcher can allocate pupils into high streams and low streams and measure the effect. This means that the sociologist can compare the higher and lower streams and look at the impact on how to sets have. This will let the sociologist see if streaming actually makes a difference between achievements. Setting up and carrying out the field experiment is quick and easy because nearly all schools have streaming. This means that the sociologist can
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Assess the view that working-class children under-achieve because they are culturally deprived. (20 marks) The idea that working-class children will most likely under-achieve due to a lack of culture‚ also known as cultural deprivation‚ refers to children lacking the norms‚ values‚ beliefs‚ skills and knowledge that a society would regard as important and necessary. The attributes that these children should know and learn are‚ in most cases‚ taught by their parents and are passed to the next generation
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4. Using material from item A and elsewhere‚ assess the claim that the main aim of education policies in the last 25 years has been to create an education market. (20 marks) In the past 25 years‚ many sociologists have stated that the main purpose of the educations system was to create an education market. Stated in item A‚ was stated that many policies such as league tables and open enrolments were introduced to help create the education market. Item A also suggests that others may take a different
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Some would argue that the education system mainly exists to select and prepare students for their future work roles and careers. Marxists believe that the education system’s role is the ideological apparatus of the state; it spreads ruling-class ideology and favours the middle class. Marxists such as Althusser‚ Bowels & Gintus and Bourdieu disagree with this statement as they argue working class children get a second class education compared to middle class and are given an unrealistic expectation
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‘The global economy has moved on from the Asian Tigers; the present and the future of the global economy now lie elsewhere.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? (40 marks) The Asian Tigers‚ consisting of Hong Kong‚ South Korea‚ Singapore and Taiwan‚ were the second group of countries to develop after World War II‚ with the first being Japan. The Asian Tigers were able to develop due to a combination of comparative advantages‚ including partially existing developed levels of infrastructure
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Today we have a number of sociological views and approaches‚ which have agreed changes have taken place in gender roles and relationships within families to make them more equal. However many others sociologist criticise the nature of those changes. Some argue there has been a greater equality within modern family life and others say it is simply exaggerated. In my essay I going to assess these views through domestic labour‚ paid work‚ decision making and domestic violence in couples and try to conclude
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While it has been a costly endeavor‚ space exploration has produced substantial rewards. Many of the radical technological advancements that we take for granted today were the by-product of the race to explore space. Cellular phones and satellite television are just two of these notable achievements. Search for Other Life Forms Space exploration offers the opportunity to potentially discover other life forms. Reasons for the importance of this are not confined to the mere satisfaction of people’s
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