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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The cultural deprivation theory argues that many working class and black children do not acquire the basic values‚ attitudes and skills needed for educational success through primary socialisation in the family. Many cultural deprivation theorists claim that working-class families inadequately socialise their children and therefore their children are ‘culturally deprived’. There are three main aspects to cultural deprivation‚ one of them being intellectual development. This refers to the
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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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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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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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How does Sebold use representations of speech and other stylistic techniques to present Jack in the extract printed below‚ and in one other episode elsewhere in the novel? Sebold presents the character of Jack as having conflicting behaviour after Susie’s death. Initially after the death of his daughter‚ Jack is mentally strong and seems to be coping with Susie’s death in his own way‚ but we later realise Jack is not as strong as he seems on the surface‚ and is close to the breaking point himself
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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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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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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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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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