A-Level Sociology Revision and More!
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Secondary Data on Academic Progress
What are the strengths and limitations of using secondary data to research the academic progress of students in schools? This challenging question came up in the methods in Context section of the November 2021 AQA A-Level Sociology exam, and students found it difficult according the Examiners Report, with significant numbers focussing only on quantitative secondary…
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The arrest of anti-monarchy protestors: another state crime!
Six anti-monarchy protestors were arrested at the Coronation of King Charles III on Saturday morning. The six were arrested as they were unloading placards and loudspeakers from their van close to route of the coronation procession where they had planned to stage their protest. They were detained for 16 hours under the very new Public…
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Teaching and learning in schools and the educational experiences of minority ethnic groups
An answer for a 10 mark ‘analyse’ question in A-level sociology (AQA)
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Sociology Exam Dates 2023
Mon 15th May, Friday 9th June and Weds 14 June!
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Nations and Nationalism in Developing Countries
Many new nations in the global south struggled to find national unity following independence because of ethnic and religious divisions within their national borders.
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Nationalism and Modernity
Ernest Gellner argued that the nations, the nation state and nationalism had their origins in modernity, more specifically in the French and industrial revolutions of the late 18th century. The origins of Nationalism and the feelings associated with it are thus not rooted in human nature, but in the social processes which emerged with the…
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Why don’t young people like the Monarchy?
Young people are twice as likely to NOT support the monarch as old people, but why is this?
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Nations without States
Many national identities do not have formal nation states with full autonomy: examples include the Welsh, the Basques, the Kurds and the Palestinians.
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Nations as Imagined Communities
nations are socially constructed entities.
A-Level Sociology Revision Bundles
