4 and 6 Mark Outline Questions on Education for the A Level Sociology Paper 1 Exam
For these questions you need to make a point and then develop that point to explain further.
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A level sociology exam practice, Exams and revision advice
How Are A-Level Sociology Essays Marked?
Below is a pared-down general mark-scheme for 20 and 30 mark sociology essays, adapted from the AQA’s more specific mark-schemes
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A Level Sociology Essays – How to Write Them
Use the Point – Explain – Expand – Criticise method (PEEC), demonstrate knowledge, application and evaluation skills, and use the item to make your points!
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Assess the View that Economic Indicators Provide an Unsatisfactory Picture of Development
Economic definitions and ways of measuring development are unsatisfactory. A much clearer and more useful picture emerges when wider social
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Using material from item A, analyse two reasons why Gross National Product may not be sufficient to measure a country’s level of development (10)
Applying material from the item analyse (ten mark) questions appear with an item as the second question on section B
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Outline and explain two reasons why Positivists generally prefer to use quantitative methods (10)
The theory and methods 10 mark question appears as a special treat at the end of paper 1 (Education, Methods
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Analyse two ways in which cultural capital may give some children an advantage in education (10)
Item A According to the Marxist sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, middle class parents possess more cultural capital, than working class
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Using material from item A, analyse two ways in which globalisation may have changed pupils’ experience of education(10)
More competition from abroad and more multiculturalism
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A Level Sociology – Outline Questions (4 and 6 Marks, Education Paper 1)
Four and Six mark outline questions appear on the education and crime and deviance AQA A level sociology exam papers.
Sociology Concepts: Education
definitions of the key concepts for the A-level sociology of education module (AQA focus)