1. How to prepare for your WPW Exam
Use the A4 WPW summary and WPW Check list as a guide to summarise the unit
Use the lists to check your folder – make sure all of your notes are in order and all WPW notes are now in one big folder
Then use the check lists to RAG your knowledge
Use the RAG to order your revision in order of priority – do your least confident work first
Use this list to create your content revision plan – remember you have 5 weeks to revise before the mock
Then use the exam questions to select questions that will help you to apply your knowledge to the exam
HAND IN: Any exam work – plans or complete questions for feedback
RYG: Act n any feedback to improve exam work

2. Session 1: Topic 2 Definitions and measurements of Poverty.
Week 2
TOPIC: Wealth and Income
Session 3: Wealth, poverty and social groups (bullet 2)
Stage 1: (30 minutes) Create a summary of the definitions and measurements of poverty
Stage 2: (30 minutes) create a detailed mindmap/ grid of all of the theories of poverty
Stage 3: (30 min)Exam focus: Complete 20 marks of exam questions in timed conditions
Support: Using your notes plan a model answer to one 10 mark question (below)
Challenge: Re-do a previous essay on this topic and turn into a model answer
Stage 1: (30 min) Review definitions of wealth and income including challenges of measuring wealth
Stage 2: (30 Min) Create a resource to summarise wealth inequality in the UK – this should include statistical evidence
Stage 3: (30 min) Exam practice
Support: Do the exam question ‘open book’
Challenge: Choose a more challenging question from the PLC
Step 1 ( 1 hour) create a grid of all of the social groups (class, gender, ethnicity, disability. age) and go though notes collating all of the reasons for their increased poverty compared to the richest 1%
Step 2: (30 min) Complete the exam question in timed conditions
Exam focus:
Outline and explain two reasons why many people clearly living in objective poverty are reluctant to define themselves as poor (10)
Applying material from item H and your knowledge, evaluate sociological explanations of the persistence of poverty in contemporary Britain (Browne pg 468) (20)
Exam questions (circle): PLAN MODEL EXAM
Two ways wealth can be defined and or measured in the UK today (10 marks)
Applying material from Item G, analyse two difficulties governments face in trying to tax wealth. (10 SP 2) (planned in class)
Applying material from item D and your knowledge, evaluate sociological explanations for the increasing inequality of wealth in the United Kingdom since the 1970s. (20)
Session 4: Solutions and responses to poverty (bullet 3) .
Week 5
TOPIC: Work, globalisation and worklessness
KEY TERMS: How to use them
Buying a set of the key terms for WPW will really help to improve your content revision:
How to use them:
First RAG them – this way you can focus on words you need to learn – some of the terms are challenging
Read- Cover-Copy like spellings the most difficult words
Paired practice
Games eg taboo, charades, Pictionary, articulate
Create concept maps – use images to define and make connections between different words
For essay planning when you get a question find all of the relevant words and then create a plan to include them
To find gaps in your revision – if you don't know a few words find this section of your notes and review them
Convert the definitions into your own words
Add images to the cards to visualise the term or definition
Suggested tasks:
Step 1 (1 hour) Create a cue card or branch on a mindmap of government policies that try to increase equality. Describe the policy, explain its impact
Step 2: (30 Min) Practice exam practice
Support: Do the exam question ‘open book’
Challenge:Re-do a previous essay on this topic and turn into a model answer
Use the key word flash cards and find all of the terms related to this topic
Step 1: 20 minutes: Practice these terms ideally with someone else
Step 2: 20 min: Create a revision resource focusing on the terms you have found difficult
Sep 3: 40 minutes: Exam focus
Exam focus:
Using material from Item 2B and elsewhere, assess the view that government policies may attempt to deal with the problem of poverty in society. [20marks]
Exam questions (circle): PLAN MODEL EXAM
.... two ways in which the labour process in contemporary society can lead to alienation (10)
Applying material from item H and your knowledge, evaluate sociological explanations of the causes and social consequences of unemployment (20 Brown pg 526)
Year 1

3. Year 1 Week 1: TOPIC: WPW: Definitions and measurements of poverty.
Week 2
TOPIC: Wealth and Income
Week 3
TOPIC: Poverty, distribution and social groups
Content I need to focus on:
Revision method:
Exam questions (circle): PLAN MODEL EXAM
Outline and explain two reasons why many people clearly living in objective poverty are reluctant to define themselves as poor (10)
Applying material from item H and your knowledge, evaluate sociological explanations of the persistence of poverty in contemporary Britain (Browne pg 468) (20)
Two ways wealth can be defined and or measured in the UK today (10 marks)
Applying material from Item G, analyse two difficulties governments face in trying to tax wealth. (10 SP 2) (planned in class)
Applying material from item D and your knowledge, evaluate sociological explanations for the increasing inequality of wealth in the United Kingdom since the 1970s. (20)
Week 4
TOPIC: Welfare provision and pluralism .
Week 5
TOPIC: Work, globalisation and worklessness
Additional
TOPIC
Content I need to focus on:
Revision method:
Exam questions (circle): PLAN MODEL EXAM
Using material from Item 2B and elsewhere, assess the view that government policies may attempt to deal with the problem of poverty in society. [20marks]
.... two ways in which the labour process in contemporary society can lead to alienation (10)
Applying material from item H and your knowledge, evaluate sociological explanations of the causes and social consequences of unemployment (20 Brown pg 526)
.. two ways in which the labour process in contemporary society can lead to alienation (10)
Year 1

4. Week 1

5. BSM
END
Relative
POOR
HBIM
Map from memory
END
Ravallion +
Lokshin

6. Content: Week 1 Absolute Poverty: Definition Measurement
Relative Poverty: Definition
Advantages
Disadvantages
Subjective Poverty: Definition
Social Exclusion: Definition
Content: Week 1

7. Cultural Explanations of Poverty
Structural Explanations
New Right: Overall View
Functionalist:
Marxist:
Murray
Feminist:
Weber:
Marsland
Cycle of poverty is a trap – situational constraints
Lewis (NB South America focused)
Social Democrats

8. Week 2

9. Definitions of wealth
Definitions and types of wealth
Problems of defining and measuring wealth
Evidence of wealth and income inequality:
In the UK:
Globally:

10. Week 3

11. Inequality in the UK Class divide Gender Class structure Location Age
Horizontal and vertical segregation
Unequal wealth distribution
Secondary labour market
Hidden poverty
Capitalism
Class divide
Feminisation of poverty
Statistics
Gender
Class structure
Patriarchy and the glass celling
Inequality in the UK
North south divide
Social exclusion
Ageism
Location
Institutional racism
Age
Elderly
Children
Discrimination
Ethnicity
Reserve army of labour
Racism
Grey panthers
Disability
Labour market segregation
Social exclusion

12. Week 4

13. Content: Week 1 State provision of welfare Examples
Private provision of welfare
Advantages
Disadvantages
Voluntary Provision of welfare
Informal Provision of Welfare
Content: Week 1

14. Conservative led coalition
Time
Theoretical Approach
Principles
Type of Government
Policies
Criticisms
Social Democratic
Beveridge, welfare for all, universalism, cradle to grave, states responsibility to provide welfare
Labour Party
NHS, Free Sec Ed, New Towns, Nationalisation of industry, Universal benefits, National Insurance
Marxist - welfare state hides poverty. Does not remove inequality New Right - creates dependency culture. Too expensive as it needs high taxes. Encourages fraud
New Right
Cultural theories, Thatcherism, Personal responsibility, enterprise, low taxation, reduced state responsibility, means testing benefits, competition
Conservatives
Council house sell off, privatisation of industry and public services
Marxist - maintains ruling class exploitation of the working class.
Social Democratic - creates a divided society.Unfair.
Third Way
Poverty Trap, Combination of Third Way and New Right ideas. Encouraged people to work with incentives
New Labour
Sure Start, Academy schools, Minimum wage, Tax credits. New Deal, Neighbourhood renewal
Social Dem - didn't go far enough to ensure the welfare of all citizens.
New Right - still required high levels of taxation, still state led, waste of money.
"big society" - welfare pluralism, means testing of benefits, lower taxes,
Conservative led coalition
Child benefit now means tested, reduction of benefits, Privatisation of some NHS services, Encouraging enterprise
Social Democratic - creates a divided society with winners and losers. Means testing is costly to administer. Causes unemployment.
present
Conservative
Increased minimum wage to living wage for over 25's, benefit reduction, cmulosry contract for junor doctors

15. New Right Approach to Welfare
Social Democratic approach
New Right Views
Social democratic view of welfare
Examples of New Right Policy:
Examples of Social Democratic Policies

16. Knowledge check: 10 mark 20 mark
Define the term ‘wealth’
Define the term ‘ benefit erosion’
Define the term income
Using one example, briefly explain how wealthy individuals are able to remain wealthy,
Outline three reasons why lone-parent families are more likely to experience poverty
Outline three was in which the government policies have tried to reduce poverty
Suggest three advantages of voluntary organisations as providers of welfare
Identify and briefly explain one advantage and two disadvantage of “means-tested benefits” as a solution to poverty
Outline three reasons for why the poor may pay more for goods and services than those who are not poor
two reasons social groups are likely to experience poverty (10) (adapted from Jan 09)
... tworeasons poverty is linked to the unequal class structure of capitalist societies ( 10)
......two ways in which social democratic ideology would address the problem of poverty (10)
.....two ways in which government responses to poverty might be regarded as putting the blame for poverty on the poor themselves (10)
Applying material from item D and your knowledge, evaluate sociological explanations for the widening gap between rich and poor in the United Kingdom.(20)
Applying material from item D and your knowledge, evaluate sociological explanations for why women are more likely than men to experience poverty (20)
Using material from Item 2B and elsewhere, assess the view government policies that have been introduced since 1945 to reduce poverty in the UK. (20 marks)

17. Week 5

18. Social Class Structure;
Meritocracy:
Functionalist: Division of labour
Marx: Alienation
Globalisation
Upskilling
Deskilling
Unemployment
Underemployment
Worklessness
Survelience

19. Work is being deskilled by technology and globalisation
Work is being upskilled by technology and globalisation
Explain the impacts of technology on the workplace
Explain the impacts of globalisation on work
Surveillance:
McDonaldisation/ Disnyfication
Outsourcing:
TNC’s:
The rise of the transnational:
Imapact on labour market

20. Worklessness and unemployment
Globalisation
Labour market
Unemployment
Capitalism
Wider impacts
Zero hours contracts
Reserve army of labour
Instability and employment
Technology
Segregation
Worklessness and unemployment
Grey Panthers
Self esteem
Education
Positive impacts
Disability
Impact of work on life chances
High skilled with disposable income
Trends in worklesness
Social inclusion
SHEEP
Gender
ethnicity
Age
location