Using material from Item A and elsewhere‚ assess the claim that gender differences in educational achievement are primarily the ’result of changes in society’ Some sociologists claim that gender differences in achievement are the result of external factors such as changes in wider society‚ e.g. The impact of feminist ideas and changing employment opportunities (as stated in Item A). However‚ this could also be an outcome of internal factors such as the education system becoming ’feminised’‚ which
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Using material from item A and elsewhere assess the usefulness of modernization theory as an explanation for differences in the levels of development of different societies. Modernization theory first arose after world war two‚ when western countries like the US‚ Britain and France all believed that capitalism was the only way to modernize countries in Eastern Europe. The different communist and capitalist governments didn’t agree on theories of modernization and so the cold war started. The first
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Using material from item A and elsewhere assess the view that working class children under achieve because they are culturally deprived. (20Marks) Culture deprivation is when people of different classes have differences in their norms‚ values‚ attitudes of education and their speech patterns. Working class parents have a lack of interest on their child’s education which leads the child to be at a disadvantage as the other middle class children will have parents who are very interested in their
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David Crystal’s “2b or Not 2b?” is an interesting topic and a global wide well known subject. As most people are guilty of text messaging not everyone breaks the rules of the English language. This controversial material has many side and views. In the beginning of the essay the author emphasizes how in a newspaper article written by John Humphry there is a disapproval and disgust of text message “they are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary” (335)
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Ciara Thomas- Sociology Essay Using information from item B and elsewhere‚ examine the usefulness of questionnaires in sociological research. “Item B: The first time we had this questionnaire‚ I thought it was a bit of a laugh. That’s the memory of it. I can’t remember if I answered in truthfully or not … it had a list of drugs and some of them I never heard of‚ and just the names just cracked me up” Source: Youth quoted in Parker‚ H.‚ Aldrige‚ J. and Meashem‚ F. (1998) Illegal Leisure‚
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2b 2b or not 2b David Crystal Last year‚ in a newspaper article headed "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language"‚ John Humphrys argued that texters are "vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped." As a new variety of language‚ texting has been condemned as "textese"‚ "slanguage"‚ a "digital virus". According
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1) Using Item A and elsewhere‚ assess different sociological explanations of suicide Durkheim was the first to study the social causes‚ or facts that he believed led to suicide‚ and these social facts are what shape humans’ behaviour and are external to the individual. He did recognise that some were naturally predisposed to committing suicide‚ but he argue that it was largely a social problem. However‚ many interpretevists contest Durkheim’s findings‚ arguing that the meaning needs to be investigated
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Using materials from the item and elsewhere‚ assess the view that there is little difference between scientific theories‚ religious doctrines and political ideologies. An ideology is most commonly regarded as a set of ideas and values shared by a social group. Some people‚ for example Inclusivists‚ believe that there is little difference between scientific theories‚ religious doctrines and political ideologies. This is because an Inclusivist’s definition of religion is very broad. Anything which
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In chapter fifteen ’’2b or Not 2b?’’ of ’’They Say / I Say’’‚ David Crystal provides arguments in favour of text messaging. Crystal tries to prove his point that text messaging is not destroying the English language with great research‚ a lot of examples and a clear organization. As the author himself puts it‚ ’’Texting has added a new dimension to language use‚ but it’s long-term impact is negligible. It’s not a disaster. ’’. Although some people believe text messaging is pillaging our punctuation
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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. According to Bynner and Joshi (1999) class differences have persisted since the late 1950’s. It can be seen that all studies carried out by various theorist came to the same conclusion that middle class pupils tend to do a lot better than working class in terms of educational achievement. Pupils from middle class backgrounds tend
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