Process
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
The Media
Media representations of social groups
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Overview
How age, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability are represented, and the male gaze.
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Questions from this subtopic
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- 1
How are young people typically represented in the media?
Model answer
Either as troubled (associated with crime, antisocial behaviour) or as consumers targeted by advertisers.
- 2
How are older people typically represented in the media?
Model answer
As dependent, out of touch, or invisible.
- 3
How does media representation of social class tend to portray middle-class lifestyles?
Model answer
As normal and aspirational.
- 4
How are working-class people often portrayed in media representations?
Model answer
Through stereotypes of poverty, criminality, or as objects of ridicule.
- 5
What three problems have historically characterised media representations of ethnicity?
Model answer
Underrepresentation, stereotyping, and negative portrayals associating minority ethnic groups with crime, immigration problems, or cultural threat.
- 6
How do media representations of gender often reinforce traditional stereotypes?
Model answer
Women are underrepresented in serious roles and frequently sexualised or confined to domestic contexts.
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