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Feminist Perspectives on the Family: How Families Shape Gender Roles

Marx's Perspective on Religion

Left Realist Criminology: Practical Approaches to Controlling Crime

Exploring the Sociological Imagination through the example of Coffee

Social Surveys - Strengths and Limitations

A summary of UK Education policies including from the Tripartite system through the 1988 Education Act, New Labour, and the Conservatives, including the impacts of Covid education policies. For a more in depth look please see this post.... revisesociology.com/2017/05/13/education-policies-uk-summary/

An overview of the content of the education topic for the AQA Sociology's 7192/1 exam paper. Education only, the paper also includes a section on theory and methods! For more detailed blog posts on this topic please see the following page: revisesociology.com/sociology-education-revise/

Positivism is a scientific approach to sociology involving using quantitative methods to uncover social trends. Intepretivism is a micro approach which prefers qualitative methods to uncover individual motives for human action.

A summary of Feminist theory focuses on Liberal, Radical, Marxist and Difference Feminism covering the key ideas, strategies for change and criticisms of each branch of Feminism.

Features of a postmodern education system might include schools having more autonomy from central government, curriculums becoming more diverse, parents and students having more choice, learning moving online, and and an overall scepticism towards metanarratives. In this presentation I examine recent trends in the UK education system and conclude that the education system remains very modernist...

Marxists argue that education acts as part of the ideological state apparatus. The role of education is to help elites maintain their power. It does this in three main ways: - Through the correspondence principle - Through reproducing class inequality - Through legitimising class inequality. This video presentation explains each of these functions and evaluates the marxist perspective on educat...

Functionalists argue that there are four main functions of education: - creating social solidarity - teaching the skills for work - acting as a bridge between home and school - role allocation and meritocracy. This video explains each of these and evaluates the functionalist perspective on education using a range of contemporary evidence. For further information please see my post on my blog......

Conservative Party education policy since 2015 has further amplified the marketisation policies introduced through the 1988 Education Act (and continued under New Labour and the Coalition). The main aspects of their policies since 2015 have included austerity (relative funding cuts), the expansion of academies and free schools, increasing grammar schools (more selective education), continuing t...

The 1988 Education Act was introduced by the New Right Consverative Government. It introduced league tables, the National Curriculum, GCSeS, open enrolment and formula funding. The idea behind these policies was to create an education market (marketisation) - giving parents choice and making schools compete for pupils in order to drive up standards. To find out more please see the following pos...

The Functionalist Perspective on Society (in pictures)

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The Functionalist Perspective on Education

Functionalist, Marxist and New Right Perspectives On Education

AS Exam Guide AQA Sociology

Sociological Perspectives on Romance, Love and Modern Relationships

Sociological Explanations for the Rise of Single Person Households #sociology #families #singledome

Why do so many young adults in their twenties live with their parents?

Green Criminology

Explaining the decline of marriage via sociological perspectives

Neo Marxism and Crime Project 0001

Cultural Deprivation's the devil

Crime Statistics Revision

A2 Sociology Crime and Deviance Revision Victimology

AS Sociology of the family - how does Social Policy affect family life?