GCSE

Discuss how far sociologists would agree that family background is the most important factor in explaining differences in students’ educational achievement.

A level and AS level

Explain ethical issues associated with sociological research.

A level and AS level

Describe sampling techniques.

O level and GCSE

Describe ways schools use rewards to motivate students.

O level and GCSE

Explain how material deprivation may lead to crime.

GCSE

Identify and explain one disadvantage of using a snowball sample to investigate attitudes of students towards higher education.

A level and AS level

‘National governments are powerless to control the new media.’ Evaluate this view

O level and GCSE

Describe trends in marriage in modern industrial societies.

A level and AS level

Evaluate the view that education is an instrument of ideological control.

GCSE

Identify and explain one factor, other than debt, that may discourage students from poorer backgrounds from applying to university, raised as a concern in Item C.

O level and GCSE

Explain how values are a social construction.

A level and AS level

Evaluate the view that cultural differences are the main reason for family diversity.

O level and GCSE

Describe ways families may not be symmetrical.

GCSE

Identify one function of the family and explain how you would investigate this function using a case study.

O level and GCSE

To what extent is the consensus view more useful than the conflict view for understanding society?