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AQA · A-Level · 7192
Sociology
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1,116 questions
SociologyContents
Contents
12 topics, 89 subtopics
  1. Education98
  2. Methods in Context28
  3. Theory and Methods92
  4. Culture and Identity68
  5. Families and Households154
  6. Health56
  7. Work, Poverty and Welfare58
  8. Beliefs in Society116
  9. Global Development54
  10. The Media77
  11. Stratification and Differentiation76
  12. Crime and Deviance239
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Methods in ContextQuestions
Methods in Context
Access, gatekeepers and research ethics in schools
  1. Who are the key gatekeepers that researchers typically need permission from to access schools for educational research?
  2. Why must researchers obtain informed consent from parents or guardians rather than directly from children when studying minors?
  3. How might the power imbalance between adult researchers and child participants affect the validity of research data?
  4. Why is covert observation considered more ethically problematic in schools than in adult settings?
  5. How might teachers acting as gatekeepers bias research samples in educational studies?
  6. What factors about the researcher might cause pupils from different social class backgrounds to respond differently?
  7. Give three examples of sensitive topics in educational research that require particular care.
  8. Why do sensitive topics in educational research require particular care?
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Access, gatekeepers and research ethics in schools
  1. Headteachers, governors, and local authorities.
  2. Because children cannot legally consent for themselves.
  3. Children may give answers they think adults want to hear rather than their true views, reducing validity.
  4. Because deceiving children is considered more problematic than deceiving adults.
  5. They may influence which pupils researchers can access, potentially biasing samples towards more cooperative or articulate students.
  6. The researcher's perceived status and manner of communication.
  7. Bullying, exclusion, and family circumstances.
  8. To avoid causing distress to vulnerable young participants.
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Families and HouseholdsQuestions
Families and Households
Marxist and feminist views of the family
  1. How does the Marxist perspective view the family's role in reproducing labour power?
  2. According to Marxists, how does the family socialise children into accepting inequality?
  3. How does the family function as a unit of consumption according to Marxist theory?
  4. Why did Engels argue the monogamous nuclear family developed?
  5. What did Zaretsky argue about the family's role under capitalism?
  6. How do feminists argue the family oppresses women through unpaid domestic labour?
  7. In what way does the family create economic dependency for women according to feminists?
  8. How do feminists view male violence within the family?
  9. What is the radical feminist view of the family?
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Marxist and feminist views of the family
  1. The family reproduces the next generation of workers and maintains current workers through unpaid domestic labour, providing capitalism with a healthy, socialised workforce at no cost.
  2. The family teaches children to accept hierarchy and obedience to authority, preparing them to accept the inequalities and exploitation of the capitalist workplace.
  3. The family consumes goods and services produced by capitalism, generating profits for the bourgeoisie and creating false needs through advertising.
  4. To ensure paternity and enable the inheritance of private property through the male line, allowing wealthy men to pass their property to their legitimate heirs.
  5. The family provides an illusion of a private refuge from the harsh realities of capitalism while actually serving capitalist interests by reproducing labour power and consuming commodities.
  6. Women perform housework and childcare without pay, which benefits men and capitalism but leaves women economically disadvantaged and their work undervalued.
  7. Women's unpaid domestic role and career interruptions for childcare make them financially dependent on male partners, reducing their power and autonomy.
  8. Male violence and the threat of violence is used to control women within the family, maintaining patriarchal power and female subordination.
  9. Radical feminists view the family as the primary site of women's oppression, arguing that patriarchy is the fundamental division in society and the family is where it is reproduced.
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The MediaQuestions
The Media
The new media and its significance
  1. What is new media?
  2. What three features distinguish new media from traditional media?
  3. What is technological convergence?
  4. How has new media transformed the role of audiences?
  5. What is a prosumer?
  6. What do optimistic views of new media emphasise?
  7. How might new media challenge traditional gatekeepers according to optimistic perspectives?
  8. What concerns do pessimistic views of new media highlight?
  9. What is surveillance capitalism in relation to new media?
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The new media and its significance
  1. Digital, interactive, and networked forms of communication including the internet, social media, and mobile technologies, distinguished from traditional media by user-generated content, interactivity, and global reach.
  2. User-generated content, interactivity, and global reach.
  3. The merging of previously separate media technologies into single devices, enabling consumption of multiple media forms through one platform.
  4. Audiences have shifted from passive consumers to active prosumers who both produce and consume content.
  5. Someone who both produces and consumes media content, rather than being a passive recipient.
  6. Democratisation of information, increased citizen journalism, and greater diversity of voices challenging traditional gatekeepers.
  7. By enabling citizen journalism and allowing a greater diversity of voices to reach audiences without needing approval from established media institutions.
  8. The digital divide, spread of misinformation, surveillance capitalism, and reinforcement of existing power structures.
  9. The exploitation of user data by technology companies for profit, representing a concern raised by pessimistic perspectives on new media.
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