Evaluation
AQA A-Level Sociology 7192
Education
Topic overviewThe role and functions of educationClass differences in educational achievementLabelling, subcultures and processes within schoolsGender and educational achievementEthnicity and educational achievementSelection and marketisationPrivatisation and vocational educationEducational policy, equality and globalisation
Methods in Context
Theory and Methods
Culture and IdentityOptional topic
Families and HouseholdsOptional topic
Topic overviewFunctionalist views of the familyMarxist and feminist views of the familyThe New Right, postmodernism and family policyMarriage, cohabitation and divorceFamily diversity and the personal life perspectiveConjugal roles and domestic labourPower relationships and domestic violenceThe social construction of childhoodBirth rates and death ratesFamily size and the ageing populationMigration and globalisation
HealthOptional topic
Work, Poverty and WelfareOptional topic
Beliefs in SocietyOptional topic
Topic overviewIdeology and science as belief systemsFunctionalist views of religionMarxist and feminist views of religionReligion as a force for social changeChurches, sects, denominations and cultsNew religious movements and New Age movementsReligion, gender, ethnicity, age and social classSecularisationBelieving without belonging and postmodern religionGlobalisation, fundamentalism and religion worldwide
Global DevelopmentOptional topic
The MediaOptional topic
Stratification and DifferentiationOptional topic
Crime and Deviance
Topic overviewFunctionalist, strain and control theories of crimeSubcultural theories of crimeInteractionism and labelling theoryMarxist and critical theories of crimeLeft and right realismGender and crimeSocial class, white-collar and corporate crimeEthnicity, policing and the criminal justice systemGlobalisation and crimeThe media, crime and fear of crimeMoral panics and the deviancy amplification spiralGreen crimeState crime and human rightsDenial, neutralisation and prosecuting state crimeSituational and environmental crime preventionRealist crime control, surveillance and the panopticonPunishment, sentencing and the criminal justice systemVictims and victimologyCrime prevention strategies and their limits
Stratification and Differentiation
Defining and measuring social class
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Overview
The Registrar General's scale and NS-SEC, the problem of classifying women, subjective class, and Bourdieu on capital.
What you need to know
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Questions from this subtopic
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- 1
Name two occupation-based class schemes used in sociology.
Model answer
The Registrar General's scale and the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC).
- 2
How did the Registrar General's scale classify occupations?
Model answer
Into six categories from professional to unskilled manual based on skill level and social standing.
- 3
What is the basis of classification in the NS-SEC scheme?
Model answer
Employment relations and conditions including job security and autonomy.
- 4
What groups are difficult to classify using occupation-based class measures?
Model answer
The unemployed, retired, students and those outside the labour market.
- 5
How were women historically classified in occupation-based class schemes?
Model answer
By their husband's or father's occupation, rendering their own class position invisible.
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What did Goldthorpe argue should be the unit of class analysis?
Model answer
The family rather than the individual, with class determined by the main breadwinner.
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