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
The selection and presentation of the news
- 3 things to know
- Paper 2
Overview
News values, gatekeeping, agenda-setting, norm-setting, the hierarchy of credibility, moral panics and churnalism.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Process
What are norm-setting, agenda-setting and the hierarchy of credibility?
Key term
What is churnalism, and why is it problematic for journalism?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What are news values?
Model answer
The criteria journalists use to determine which events are newsworthy.
- 2
How does immediacy function as a news value?
Model answer
Events that are recent or happening now are considered more newsworthy than older events.
- 3
How does dramatisation function as a news value?
Model answer
Events with dramatic, exciting, or sensational elements are more likely to be selected as newsworthy.
- 4
How does personalisation function as a news value?
Model answer
Stories that can be told through individual human experiences or personalities are considered more newsworthy.
- 5
How does negativity function as a news value?
Model answer
Bad news, conflict, and negative events are considered more newsworthy than positive stories.
- 6
How does relevance function as a news value?
Model answer
Events that are meaningful or significant to the target audience are considered more newsworthy.
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