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Assess the Usefulness of Positivist Approaches to Social Research (30)
Just a few thoughts on how you might go about answering this question… if it comes up on paper 3 of the A level sociology exam Paragraph one – outline the key ideas of Positivism Positivists believe that sociology can and should use the same methods and approaches to study the social world that “natural”…
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Assess the claim that ‘ethnic difference in educational achievement are primarily the result of school factors’ (30)
School factors include teacher labelling, banding and streaming, school ethos and pupil subcultures. Although home factors are generally more important in explaining differences in achievement
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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 factors are included.’ Assess this view of development and underdevelopment. (20) International organizations such as the World Bank prefer to measure development using economic indicators such as Gross National Product (GNP) and Gross Domestic Product…
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Assess the Contribution of Post/ Late Modern Perspectives to our Understanding of Crime and Deviance (30)
An essay plan on Post/ Late Modern perspectives on crime and deviance covering the relationship between consumerism and crime (Robert Reiner), The Vertigo of Late Modernity (Jock Young), the consequences of globalisation for crime, and the rise of cyber crime, all followed by some evaluations and a conclusion. Brief intro outlining the key ideas of…
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Evaluate the Marxist View of the Role of Education in Society
An essay evaluating the Marxist view of education covering ideological state apparatus, correspondence principle, the reproduction and legitimation of class inequality.
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Marriage and Cohabitation Essay Plan
An essay plan that should be sufficient to get you into the top mark band Examine some of the reasons for changes in the patterns of marriage and cohabitation (24) There have been many changes in the patterns of marriage and cohabitation in the last 40 years. This is due a number of different factors including…
