WJEC Eduqas GCSE Sociology sample

4 What is authority? 138 Do we live in a classless society? 140 Are inequalities of social class still important in the UK? 142 How does social class affect life-chances? 144 How does society present gender roles in the UK today? 146 How does gender affect life-chances? 148 The feminist view of patriarchy 150 How have men been affected by social changes in UK society? 152 How do the norms of different age groups vary in different societies? 154 How does the media present different age groups? 156 How does age affect life-chances? 158 Issues of race and ethnicity in 21st-century UK 160 How does the media portray different ethnic groups? 162 How does ethnicity affect life-chances? 164 How is disability viewed in our society? 166 How does disability affect life-chances? 168 Changing attitudes to sexuality in the UK 170 How does sexuality affect life-chances? 172 What is poverty? 174 What is deprivation? 176 Which groups suffer from poverty? 178 What is social exclusion? 180 Why are poverty and social exclusion difficult to solve? 182 How does globalisation affect poverty in the UK? 184 Chapter 5 Crime and deviance 186 Introduction to Crime and deviance 186 What are crime and deviance? 188 Socially constructed concepts of crime and deviance 190 Social control and crime and deviance 192 How do agencies of informal social control keep society in order? 194 The role of the police 196 The role of the courts 198 The main patterns of crime in the UK 200 Who are the victims of crime in the UK? 202 Patterns of crime relating to age 204 The functionalist view of crime and deviance 206 How do structural theories explain crime? 208 How do subcultural theories explain crime? 210 How does Marxism explain crime? 212 What is white-collar crime? 214 What is corporate crime? 216 What do interactionists contribute to the study of crime? 218 The media and crime 220 How does social control affect levels of female crime and deviance? 222 How does poverty affect female crime and deviance? 224 Are females treated fairly by the forces of social control? 226 What is the situation for ethnic minorities and crime? 228 Institutional racism 230 Problems with police statistics on crime 232 How does the government collect official statistics on crime? 234 What do sociological theories tell us about official crime figures? 236 Research Methods 238 Chapter 6 Sociological enquiry and research methods 238 Different types of research and data 240 How useful are questionnaires in social research? 242 How useful are interviews in social research? 244 Different types of sociological observation 246 Secondary data 248 What are ethics in sociological research? 250 How do sociologists make choices about research? 252 Establishing an aim and/or hypothesis 254 How do sociologists choose a sampling technique? 256 How do sociologists plan successful research? 258 Why do sociologists sometimes use mixed methods? 260 How useful is sociological research? 262 Examination practice and technique 264 Glossary 279 Index 284