Sociology - Education Paper 1(AQA) Revision Exam Questions And Already Passed Answers.
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A-LEVEL SOCIOLOGY
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A-LEVEL SOCIOLOGY
Functionalist Approach - Answer Take a consensus view. Education performs 3 main functions - socialisation into a shared culture, teaching specialist work skills, selecting people for work roles. Education is organised on meritocratic principles.
New Right Approach - Answer Take a conserva...
Sociology - Education Paper 1(AQA)
Revision Exam Questions And Already
Passed Answers.
Functionalist Approach - Answer Take a consensus view. Education performs 3 main functions -
socialisation into a shared culture, teaching specialist work skills, selecting people for work roles.
Education is organised on meritocratic principles.
New Right Approach - Answer Take a conservative view. Education should be based on market
principles.
Marxist Approach - Answer Take a class conflict view. Education's role is to serve capitalism. It's an ideal
state apparatus that reproduces and legitimises inequality through correspondence principle and myth
of meritocracy.
Feminist Approach - Answer Take a patriarchal view. Education still benefits the male gender more.
Post-Modernist Approach - Answer Economy has become post-fordist. Education is becoming more
diverse and flexible.
Cultural Capital - Answer The knowledge middle class parents have that allows them to navigate the
education system to best benefit their children.
Centre for Longitudinal studies (2007) - Answer By the age of 3, children from disadvantaged
backgrounds are already up to one year behind those with more privileged backgrounds. Gap widens
with age.
Bernstein (1975) - Answer Speech codes. Restricted code used by the working class. Elaborated code
used by middle class.
, Restricted Code - Answer Primarily working class. Limited vocab. Based on short, unfinished,
grammatically simple sentences. Speech is predictable. May only use single word or gestures. Descriptive
not analytic. Speaker assumes listener shares same experiences.
Elaborated Code - Answer Primarily middle class. Wide vocab, grammatically complex sentences.
Varied speech communicating abstract ideas. Speaker makes no assumptions so spell out meanings
explicitly.
Douglas (1964) - Answer Working class parents place less value on education. Less ambition for
children, less encouragement, rarely/not visiting schools. As a result, WC children have less motivation
and lower achievement.
Feinstein (2008) - Answer Parents education affects children's achievement. Educated MC parents have
a more disciplined, high expectancy parenting style, are more aware of what is needed for progress, and
can use income to promote success (e.g. private tutoring). Uneducated WC parents have harsh,
inconsistent parenting style, less understanding of what is needed for progress, and little/no disposable
income to promote success.
Working-Class Subculture - Answer Members of the WC have different goals, beliefs, and attitudes that
clash with education.
Sugarman (1970) - Answer There are 4 key features of WC subculture that act as barrier to educational
achievement. Fatalism, Collectivism, Immediate gratification, and Present-time orientation.
Fatalism - Answer The belief in fate. "What will be, will be". Nothing you can do to change your fate so
why bother approach.
Collectivism - Answer Valuing being part of a group more than individual success. May lead to being
held back by group loyalties.
Immediate Gratification - Answer Seeking immediate pleasure rather than making sacrifices and
waiting for greater rewards in the future.
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