HOMEWORK

Year 10 Sociology Topics & Homework

1 Education

Education Part 1

The Function of Schools
  • Social control
  • Secondary socialisation
  • Serving the needs of the economy
  • Social mobility
  • Social cohesion
School Diversity
  • Different types of schools
  • Strengths of different school types
  • Vocational education
Hidden Curriculum
  • Social control
  • Achievement and competition
  • Routine
  • Dress code
  • Gender role allocation
The Classroom Set-up
  • Ethnocentric curriculum
  • Labelling
  • Setting/Streaming
  • Anti-school sub-culture
Politics
  • Increase in competition (marketisation of education)
  • Increase working class chances
  • Encourage parents to get more involved

Education Part 2

Factors That Influence Success
  • Social class
  • Gender
  • Ethnicity
Social Class
  • Material deprivation
  • Private tutoring
  • Parental attitude and socialisation
  • Speech/writing development
  • Cultural deprivation
  • Teacher labelling
Gender
  • Socialisation of the genders
  • Toys
  • Job market is changing
  • Crisis of masculinity
  • Opportunities increasing for girls
  • Homework effort
  • Peer pressure
Ethnicity
  • Material deprivation (social class link)
  • Language barrier
  • Norms/values.cultural deprivation
  •  Ethnocentric curriculum
  • Institutional racism
  • Stereotyping
  • Labelling

Key Words

Meritocracy
Ofsted
League Tables
Vocational Education
Formal Curriculum
Hidden Curriculum
Setting
Streaming
Anti-school Sub-culture
Crisis of Masculinity
Ethnocentric Curriculum
Marketisation of Education
Labelling
​Subcultures

Test - Exam Questions


2 Crime

Crime Part 1 - Filter & Learn

Crime and Deviance
What is the difference?
Why is it difficult to define deviance?
How does deviance change? (Time, location, culture) 

Measuring Crime
Official statistics
Victim surveys
Self-report surveys
Strengths and weaknesses of each
Dark figure of crime

Controlling Crime
Formal social control
CCTVs (do they work?)
ASBOs (do they work?)
Police/law
Army 

Informal social control
Family
Friends
Work 

Crime and Gender
Reasons why boys/girls commit crime
Crime and Social Class
Reasons why the working class commit crime
Reasons why the upper classes commit crime

Crime Part 2 - Filter & Learn

Explanations of Crime

Biological

Lombroso criminal
XYY
Testosterone
Crime gene 

Psychological
Premenstrual tension
For the feeling
Social learning theory
Unconscious desires (Freud and the id)
Maternal deprivation 

Sociological
Socialisation
Peer groups and sub-cultures
Relative deprivation
Material deprivation
Labelling/SFP 
Deviancy amplification 

Crime and Ethnicity
Reasons why ethnic minorities do/don't commit crime 

Debates
Who is most likely to commit crime? (Link factors together)
Where does crime originate from?

Key Words

Crime
Law
Deviance
Socially defined behaviour
Official statistics
Victim surveys
Self-report surveys
Dark figure of crime
Formal social control
Informal social control
CCTV
ASBOs
Chivalry thesis
Ladette culture
Institutional racism
Anomie
White-collar crime

Test - Exam Questions