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AQA Sociology GCSE Education

GCSE Sociology Education

Differential Achievement

Gender

Ethnicity

Social Class

Teacher Expectations

Material and Cultural Deprivation

Parental attitudes

Essential Notes and Workbook

Gender

Topic 18

H Green Year 10 Sociology


Design your own diagram to show the 4 main reasons which explain why girls are getting better grades than boys.

You need to include:

The role of the feminist movement Changing job opportunities Legal changes Introduction of the national curriculum

GenderTopic 20



Why are girls improving faster than boys?

Complete this chart to show the findings of three sociological studies on gender and achievement.

Study What did their study show?Harris (1993)

Moir and Moir (1998)

Katz (2000)

Which sociologist do you agree with the most? Why?

Material Deprivation

Topic 14



Some sociologists are interested in how the home environment can affect educational achievement. Material factors are concerned with money and the general standard of living within the home.

Complete this chart to show how material factors can effect a child’s educational achievement.

Study What does this tell us about educational achievement?

The child poverty action group

Douglas (1967)

Halsey, Heath and Ridge (1980)

For each of these factors explain how they could lead to educational underachievement.

Factor How this could lead to



underachievement.Lack of school uniform or sports kit

Lack of privacy or quiet in the home

Poor diet – no breakfast before coming to school

Poor attendance through illness

Not having attended nurserySchool

How does coming from a middle class home benefit children?

Read the extract on page 123

Explain the research carried out by Leon Feinstein in 2002



What are the factors which effected pre-school children’s underachievement?

Parental Attitudes and Achievement

Topic 15



How do the attitudes and values of middle-class and working-class parents differ?

Middle-class values Working-class values

List the ways that middle-class parents might be able to give their children a head start in education.

Cultural deprivation

What do you think cultural deprivation means?



How might the middle-class parents help their children by providing them with cultural experiences?

Teacher Expectations and School Factors



Topic 16

What is the halo effect?

How might teachers see working-class and middle-class children differently?

Working-class Middle-class

Which sociologists studied this?

What do you think self-filling prophecy means and how can this be applied to education?



Streaming, Sub-cultures and School Organisation

Topic 17

Do the classes and sets you are placed in at school, the people you make friends with and how the school is organised have an effect on educational achievement?

Key word: Streaming

What is streaming?

Arguments for and against streaming

Arguments for streaming Arguments against streaming

How have some schools tried to overcome the issue of streaming?



Key word definition: Sub-culture

Definition of sub-culture

Describe the work of…

Hargreaves (1967)

Lacey (1970)

Rutter (1979) thought that the way that a school was organised helped the pupils to achieve.

Describe the schools which had the best results:



Ethnicity and Achievement

Topic 21

Answer questions 1 to 3

Topic 22/23

Draw a diagram to show these factors may affect the achievement of students from different ethnic backgrounds:

Home and social class Cultural differences Parental expectations Types of school attended Labelling and teacher expectations The hidden curriculum

You may do this on A3/A4 paper.




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