Using material from item A and elsewhere assess the view that social class differences in educational achievement are the result of school processes such as labelling. Social class is typically known as social grouping or hierarchy based on differences in wealth‚ income or occupation. In the UK there are mainly two social classes; working class and middle class. 33% of students who are currently on free school meals achieve 5A*-C at GCSE‚ however 61% of students who are not on free school meals
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Using material from item A and elsewhere‚ asses the view that the education system exists mainly to select and prepare young people for their future work roles One way to select and prepare young people for their future work roles is by selecting and allocating pupils of education a role in society‚ as is mentioned in item A: “it also selects and allocates them to their future work roles” which means social inequality is legitimised because of the hierarchy of society – someone has to be
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Using material from Item A and elsewhere assess the view that social class differences in educational achievement are the result of school processes such as labelling. Social class background has a powerful influence on a child’s chances of success in the educational system‚ a child is often labeled from the first year of school based on stereotyped assumptions about their class background‚ in the society there are significant social class‚ gender and ethnic inequalities of educational achievement
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With reference to your own research and the item above‚ do you think that the ability of a business to act successfully in a socially responsible manner is mainly determined by the products it produces? Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large. The level of corporate
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Item A: "The news media are one of our main sources of knowledge about crime and deviance. Often the media will create a moral panic surrounding crimes and criminals or deviants. Moral panics can lead to a range of responses by the public‚ by agents of social control and by the 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
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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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Using material from Item A and elsewhere‚ assess the usefulness of subcultural theories in explaining ‘subcultural crime and deviance’ in society today (21 marks) Subcultural theories believe that people who commit a crime share different values to the rest of society. Subculture theories come from two different schools of sociology which are appreciative sociology and strain theory. Appreciative sociology came from the University of Chicago in the early 20th Century; Chicago sociologists were
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Once inventory is stratified as A‚ B‚ C‚ D‚ X and Y items‚ the classification aids in making several business decisions. How does inventory stratification influence i. Supplier Management? ii. Inventory Management? iii. Customer Management? iv. Warehouse Management? v. Sales Management? vi. Pricing Management? vii. Marketing Management? viii. Reinvestment Decisions? Creating shareholder value is the ultimate goal of all businesses‚ so all
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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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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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