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 […]
A level sociology exam practice, Exams and revision advice
Sociology
A level sociology exam practice, Exams and revision advice
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!
A level sociology exam practice, Exams and revision advice, Global Development, Indicators of development, Pot Luck
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
A level sociology exam practice, Exams and revision advice, Global Development, Indicators of development
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
Sociology key terms
Sociological Perspectives: Key Concepts for A-Level Sociology
Definitions of key terms for the five basic sociological perspectives – Functionalism, Marxism, Feminism, Social Action Theory and Postmodernism.
A level sociology exam practice, Exams and revision advice, Social Theories
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
A level sociology exam practice, Exams and revision advice, Pot Luck
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
A level sociology exam practice, education, Exams and revision advice
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
A level sociology exam practice, Exams and revision advice, Pot Luck
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)