AQA Sociology Paper 1 - Education Concepts

Question 1

What has caused the crisis of masculinity?

Accepted Answer

The decline of manufacturing jobs

Question 2

What are the 3 types of racist teachers?

Accepted Answer

Colourblind, Overt racists, Liberal chauvinists

Question 3

What process occurs in the function of role allocation, according to Davis and Moore?

Accepted Answer

Sifting and sorting

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Reading

Question 5

What major policy was introduced in 1988?

Accepted Answer

The Education Reform Act

Question 6

Who developed the speech codes theory?

Accepted Answer

Bernstein

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

Job - Marriage - Children

Question 8

Why is the speech of African American youths criticised by cultural deprivation theory?

Accepted Answer

They use slang terminology

Question 9

What are the two pupil identities Archer states are applied to minority pupils?

Accepted Answer

Demonised - black pupils, Pathologised - Asian pupils

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

The education system, The workplace

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

Comprehensive

Question 12

What process involves sorting pupils by ability

Accepted Answer

Streaming

Question 13

What term is used to describe the ways in which working class girls express themselves?

Accepted Answer

Hyper heterosexual feminine identity

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

Double standards

Question 15

What 2 factors cause material deprivation in minority ethnic households?

Accepted Answer

Purdah, Overcrowded housing

Question 16

What is an ethnocentric curriculum?

Accepted Answer

A curriculum which benefits the dominant ethnic group

Question 17

What does SFP stand for?

Accepted Answer

Self fulfilling prophecy

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

Correspondence principle

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

Borderline students

Question 20

Which of the following is not a sociological explanation for gendered subject choices?

Accepted Answer

Teacher instruction

Question 21

Which theorist studied labelling & the ideal pupil?

Accepted Answer

Becker

Question 22

What 2 pieces of evidence are used by sociologists to show how teachers apply racist labels?

Accepted Answer

Asian pupils are looked down upon & talked to as inferior, Black males are more likely to be excluded from school

Question 23

In what year was the Tripartite system introduced?

Accepted Answer

1944

Question 24

What did Chubb and Moe theorise would improve the education system?

Accepted Answer

Introduction of vouchers for parents

Question 25

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

Accepted Answer

Catchment areas

Question 26

What does PPP stand for?

Accepted Answer

Public Private Partnership

Question 27

Which is an example of cultural deprivation?

Accepted Answer

Restricted speech

Question 28

What is meant by the term gender domain?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 29

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

Accepted Answer

Asian

Question 30

What is the general definition of material deprivation?

Accepted Answer

Lacking necessities and resources

Question 31

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

Accepted Answer

History

Question 32

From where would a person have an ascribed status?

Accepted Answer

Their family

Question 33

What policy replaced the Tripartite system in 1965?

Accepted Answer

Comprehensive schooling

Question 34

What are the three types of parental choosers according to Gerwitz?

Accepted Answer

Semi skilled, Privileged skilled, Disconnected local

Question 35

What does Willis mean by the term counter culture?

Accepted Answer

Working class boys reject the middle class habitus of school

Question 36

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

Accepted Answer

Only allowing online applications to the school

Question 37

What is the definition of labelling?

Accepted Answer

To apply a judgement or assumption

Question 38

What is an Academy?

Accepted Answer

A school funded by central government & private sponsors

Question 39

What are 2 features of a working class subculture?

Accepted Answer

Collectivism, Fatalism

Question 40

What is meant by the term male gaze?

Accepted Answer

The objectification of female pupils at school

Question 41

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

Accepted Answer

Universalistic

Question 42

What is meant by the term institutional racism?

Accepted Answer

Where the whole school system disadvantages minority pupils

Question 43

What does ISA stand for?

Accepted Answer

Ideological State Apparatus

Question 44

Which of the following phrases does Durkheim use to describe the role of education?

Accepted Answer

Society in miniature

Question 45

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

Accepted Answer

Hidden curriculum

Question 46

What are 2 features of the elaborated code?

Accepted Answer

Complex & varied vocabulary, Context-free speech

Question 47

What significant family change is thought to motivate girls but demotivate boys at school?

Accepted Answer

The rise in divorce

Question 48

Which of the following is an example of compensatory education aimed at ethnic minority pupils?

Accepted Answer

Saturday schools

Question 49

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

Accepted Answer

Sewell

Question 50

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

Accepted Answer

Ofsted, League Tables

AQA Sociology Paper 1 - Education Concepts

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