Paper 1 - AQA Sociology

Which is the correct definition of the elaborated code?

• Language with limited vocabulary, used by the working class

• Descriptive language

• Formal language used in school classrooms or writing essays

• Languaged used by the working class

Which is NOT an example of material deprivation?

• Poverty

• Lack of food

• Damp housing

• Poor parental attitudes

Why do middle class children benefit from streaming?

• They are negatively labelled

• They are more likely to be in higher sets

• They develop a more positive self concept

• They like swimming

What is immediate gratification?

• Feeling you cannot improve your situation

• Being able to defer a reward and put in hard work to gain a reward later

• Your social group is more important than individual success

• Wanting rewards now, not wanting to work or wait for success

What are the 3 types of capital, suggested by Bourdieu?

• Economic, cultural, educational

• Cultural, gender, class

• Educational, gender, economic

• Economic, cultural, gender

What was Sue Sharpe's study?

• Girls' ambitions changed from wanting to be mothers (in the 1970s) to wanting to have a career (in the 1990s)

• The Equal Pay Act has made girls complacement

• Girls are more likely to be positively labelled by their teachers

• Pupils who were labelled as 'bloomers' in a fake IQ test did then improve on subsequent tests at the end of the year

What is a meritocracy?

• A Marxist term that if you work hard in capitalism, you will be rewarded

• A functionalist term that if you have been ascribed in a good status, you will succeed

• A functionalist term that if you put in hard work, you can achieve. Society is fair.

• A functionalist term that if you participate in the hidden curriculum, you will be allocated an appropriate role.

Who talks about 'role allocation'?

• Davis & Moore

• Davis & Moe

• Chubb & Moore

• Chubb & Moe

Who said education encourages a sense of solidarity?

• Parsons

• Durkheim

• Davis & Moore

• Chubb & Moe

Which of the following does not explain why Science has a gendered subject image?

• Teachers use examples that draw upon male interests

• Boys monopolise apparatus and domiante the lab

• More male science teachers

• It involves reading.