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AQA Sociology Education (A Level) Exam Questions and Answers
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AQA Sociology Education (A Level)Exam Questions and Answers
1. Material deprivation - Answer>> Lacking basic necessities
due to poverty.
2. Cultural deprivation - Answer>> Inadequate socialisation
in the home.
3. Material deprivation's effects on education - Answer>>
90% of failing schools are in deprived areas. Dpt of
Education (2012) barely 1/3 of students eligible for free
school meals achieve 5 or more GCSE's at A*-C. These
students are more likely to be excluded and truant.
4. Effects of housing on educational achievement - Answer>>
Direct - overcrowding makes it difficult for a child to study,
disturbed sleep from sharing beds or rooms. Indirect - effects
on health and welfare e.g. children in crowded house run a
greater risk of having an accident. Cold or damp house leads
to infections or illness.
5. Effects of diet and health on educational achievement -
Answer>> Howard (2001) kids from poorer homes have a
lower intake of energy, vitamins and minerals. Wilkinson
(1999) kids from poorer backgrounds are more likely to have
emotional/ behavioural problems. Blanden and Machin
(2007) found children from poorer backgrounds more likely
to engage in fights or temper tantrums.
,6. University and social class - Answer>> Callender and
Jackson (2005) w/c students more likely to see debt
negatively.
7. Bernstein (1973) - Answer>> w/c students underachieve
because they are socialised into a restricted language code
whereas schools favour an elaborated language code which
middle class students are socialised into.
8. Marketization - Answer>> process of introducing market
forces of consumer choice and competition in education.
9. Bernstein and Young (1967) - Answer>> better educated
parents have higher incomes and spend them on promoting
education to their children, via educational trips or toys.
10. Douglas (1964) - Answer>> w/c parents place less
value on education - less ambitious for their children and
give them less encouragement.
11. Bourdieu (1984) - Answer>> cultural capital refers to
the knowledge, tastes, language, attitudes and values of the
middle class.
12. Gillborn and Youdell (2001) - Answer>> teachers
label students based on stereotypical assumptions of their
class worth, they also argue that labelling leads to a self
fulfilling prophecy
13. Self-fulfilling prophecy - Answer>> Living up to your
label.
, 14. Archer (2010) - Answer>> found pupils were creating
'Nike identities' by investing heavily in style to gain class
worth.
15. Educational triage - Answer>> no hopers, those with
potential, those who will pass anyway (Gillborn and Youdell).
16. Stephen Ball (1981) - Answer>> looked at abolishing
streaming in schools & found when it was abolished anti-
school subcultures were less likel to be created but teacher
labelling continued.
17. Black family structure - Answer>> mostly headed by
a single female parent. Murray (1984) argues financial
difficulty and a lack of male role model leads to the children
in these families being inadequately socialised and go onto
fail at school.
18. Asian family structure - Answer>> Lupton (2004)
argues that adult authority in Asian fams is similar to the way
schools operate. Pryce adds that Asian kids are more
resistant to racism so develop self-worth.
19. Wood et al (2010) - Answer>> Found evidence of
discrimination in employment, he sent three closely matched
application forms to 1,000 job vacancies using fictitious
applicant names. Only 1/16 ethnic minority offered an
interview compared with 1/9 white applications.
20. Ethnocentric curriculum - Answer>> Coard (2005)
argues that school curriculum is enthocentric and based on
white culture as Eng Lit is based of British lit, European
history and foreign language studies ignore non-European
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