Category: Essay plans
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Applying material from Item B and your knowledge, evaluate the view that the media portray women in a stereotypical way [20 marks]
An essay plan covering some of the knowledge and evaluation points you could use to answer this question for AQA A-level sociology paper two: the media option. You might like to review this post on how women are represented in the media before going through the plan below. The item refers to three main types…
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Evaluate the view that the extent of secularisation has been exaggerated (20)
Using material from the item answer the question below Item Numerous surveys on religious belief and church attendance in the UK and around Europe suggest that people are becoming less religious year on year, leading many sociologists to theorise why secularisation is occurring.However, other sociologists suggest that religion may be changing, rather than declining, especially…
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Evaluate the view that changing gender roles are the most significant factor in explaining the increase in family diversity (20)
Below is a suggested essay plan for a possible essay which may come up on the AQA’s A-level sociology paper 2: topics in sociology: families and households section. The plan follows the Point – Explain – Analyse – Evaluate structure, topped and tailed with an introduction and a conclusion: GIFF VERSION PNG VERSION: (Two versions as…
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Evaluate the Strengths of Using Social Surveys in Social Research (20)
‘Evaluate the Strengths of Using Social Surveys in Social Research’ (20) This is an essay plan for a possible essay for the AQA’s A Level Sociology paper 3: Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods. This essay plan uses the TPEN structure which covers the theoretical, practical, ethical and ‘nature of topic’ factors relevant to…
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Evaluate the Functionalist View of the Role of Education in Society (30) #LONG VERSION
Essay practice for A-level sociology!
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Evaluate the Functionalist Perspective on the Role of Education in Society (30)
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Assess the View that Poor Countries Will Always Remain Poor (20)
An essay plan including Modernisation and Dependency Theory, Neoliberalism and World System’s Theory, Bottom Billion and Neo-Modernisation theory, as well as contemporary trends such as war and conflict and environmental decline and case studies such as India, China, Afghanistan and Haiti. Introduction The view in the question is most closely associated with Dependency Theory which argued that poor countries…
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Assess the View that the Family has Become More Child Centred (20)
The view in the question is associated with the ‘March of Progress view’ of childhood – that society and the family have both become more child centred. Four possible points for the view in the question Point 1 – Child welfare policies protect children in the family – Laws prevent them from working, children MUST…
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Evaluate the View that the Main Aim of the Family is to Meet the Needs of Capitalism (20)
Capitalism is an economic system characterised by private ownership of means of production. The Marxist perspective argues that in many ways the family serves the needs of capitalism in a number of ways, ultimately benefitting the bourgeoisie and the proletariat remaining oppressed and exploited. Other perspectives however such as feminism would argue that serving the…
