The relationship between material factors and educational attainment: How socioeconomic factors influence educational outcomes.

Cultural explanations for patterns in social class and educational attainment: Including parental attitudes, values, speech codes, and cultural capital.

In-school factors: Labelling, ability grouping, and pupil subcultures as factors contributing to class-based inequalities in education.

Compensatory education programmes: Evaluating the effectiveness of programmes designed to address educational inequalities.

Paper 1 – Socialisation, Identity and Methods of Research

Socialisation and the creation of social identity

Examines the relationship between the individual and society, including how social order is maintained and resisted.

Focuses on key concepts like socialisation, culture, identity, power, control, resistance, structure, human agency, social change, and development.

Explores contrasting views on the individual-society relationship and changes in social identity.

1.1 The process of learning and socialisation

Identifies elements of the social construction of reality, including culture, roles, norms, values, beliefs, customs, ideology, power, and status.

Emphasises the importance of socialisation in influencing human behaviour, including the nurture versus nature debate.