AQA Sociology Paper 1 - Education Concepts

Question 1

Who claimed that lone parenthood is damaging to African-Caribbean boys?

Accepted Answer

Sewell

Question 2

What term means that certain sexual behaviours are celebrated in boys but criticised in girls?

Accepted Answer

Double standards

Question 3

What 2 things have become feminised, advantaging girls but disadvantaging boys?

Accepted Answer

The education system, The workplace

Question 4

What does ISA stand for?

Accepted Answer

Ideological State Apparatus

Question 5

What term means that schools pass on subliminal messages about the world of work to pupils?

Accepted Answer

Hidden curriculum

Question 6

What was used to decide which school a pupil would attend in the comprehensive system?

Accepted Answer

Catchment areas

Question 7

What are 2 features of the elaborated code?

Accepted Answer

Complex & varied vocabulary, Context-free speech

Question 8

What is the general definition of material deprivation?

Accepted Answer

Lacking necessities and resources

Question 9

What has caused the crisis of masculinity?

Accepted Answer

The decline of manufacturing jobs

Question 10

Which of the following would be an example of cream skimming/silt shifting?

Accepted Answer

Only allowing online applications to the school

Question 11

What is an Academy?

Accepted Answer

A school funded by central government & private sponsors

Question 12

In what year was the Tripartite system introduced?

Accepted Answer

1944

Question 13

What term do Bowles and Gintis use to describe how school mirrors the workplace?

Accepted Answer

Correspondence principle

Question 14

What did Sue Sharpe find that girls' order of priorities were by the 1990s?

Accepted Answer

Job - Marriage - Children

Question 15

What type of standards are passed on through education, according to Parsons?

Accepted Answer

Universalistic

Question 16

Families of which background are claimed to have a better "work ethic"?

Accepted Answer

Asian

Question 17

What activity are girls more likely to engage in than boys which benefits their education?

Accepted Answer

Reading

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT a school in the Tripartite system?

Accepted Answer

Comprehensive

Question 19

Which group gets the most attention in the educational triage process?

Accepted Answer

Borderline students

Question 20

What is meant by the term male gaze?

Accepted Answer

The objectification of female pupils at school

Question 21

What is an example of material deprivation?

Accepted Answer

Poor diet, Overcrowded housing

Question 22

What does Willis mean by the term counter culture?

Accepted Answer

Working class boys reject the middle class habitus of school

Question 23

What major policy was introduced in 1988?

Accepted Answer

The Education Reform Act

Question 24

What are 2 features of a working class subculture?

Accepted Answer

Collectivism, Fatalism

Question 25

What are the 3 types of racist teachers?

Accepted Answer

Colourblind, Overt racists, Liberal chauvinists

Question 26

Who developed the speech codes theory?

Accepted Answer

Bernstein

Question 27

What is meant by the term institutional racism?

Accepted Answer

Where the whole school system disadvantages minority pupils

Question 28

Which is an example of cultural deprivation?

Accepted Answer

Restricted speech

Question 29

What policy replaced the Tripartite system in 1965?

Accepted Answer

Comprehensive schooling

Question 30

What is meant by the term gender domain?

Accepted Answer

An area or "territory" which is regarded as male or female

Question 31

What does SFP stand for?

Accepted Answer

Self fulfilling prophecy

Question 32

What is not one of the three types of parental choosers according to Gerwitz?

Accepted Answer

Cultural capital

Question 33

Which subject in particular does Durkheim state encourages a sense of social solidarity?

Accepted Answer

History

Question 34

What is an ethnocentric curriculum?

Accepted Answer

A curriculum which benefits the dominant ethnic group

Question 35

Which 2 things were introduced as part of the first marketisation policy?

Accepted Answer

Ofsted, League Tables

Question 36

Which theorist studied labelling & the ideal pupil?

Accepted Answer

Becker

AQA Sociology Paper 1 - Education Concepts

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AQA Sociology Paper 1 - Education Concepts

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