1. Sociology Mock Feedback

2. How do you think the mock went?
Have a discussion with your partner/group
How much work did you put it?
Could you have tried harder/spent longer revising?
Why didn’t you?

3. Reasons… It’s ‘just’ a mock… I know it so I don’t need to revise
I don’t know how to revise
I revised loads but still didn’t do very well

4. 2 marker Define the term ‘meritocracy’.
Two marks for a satisfactory definition such as: a system where everyone has equal opportunity, a system where rewards are based on achievement/ability, or similar.
One mark for a partial definition such as: fair rewards, or only an example given.
No marks for no/an unsatisfactory definition.

5. 2 marker
Using one example, briefly explain how schooling may act as a society in miniature.
Two marks for a clearly explained example or one mark for a partially explained example, such as:
the school is a community like wider society (1 mark); it involves cooperation with others who are neither kin nor friends (+1 mark).
• judging pupils according to universalistic norms e.g. in exams (1 mark) reflects the universalistic standards of wider society e.g. equality before the law
• streaming pupils largely according to social class (1 mark) reflects the class structure of wider society (+1 mark).
Other relevant material should be credited.
No marks for no relevant points.

6. 6 marker One mark for identify one mark for an explanation.
Two marks for each of three appropriate ways clearly outlined or one mark for appropriate ways partially outlined, such as:
Same-sex peer groups (1 mark) give status and symbolic capital to individuals for performing appropriate gender identities (+1 mark).
Name calling (1 mark), e.g. calling boys ‘gay’ if they have female friends reinforces heterosexual masculine identities (+1 mark).
Some subjects are seen as male or female (1 mark). Choosing gender appropriate subjects reinforces pupil identities (+1 mark).

7. 6 marker
the male gaze by boys or teachers (1 mark) may be used to define girls’ identity in sexual terms (+1 mark).
• double standards of sexual behaviour by other pupils (1 mark) define girls’ and boys’ identities differently e.g. as ‘slags’ or ‘real lads’ (+1 mark).
• school staff as role models (1 mark): their performance of gender roles provides a model of gender identity (+1 mark).

8. How would you answer this?
10 marker
“Outline and explain TWO policies that may affect social class differences in educational achievement” (10 marks)
How would you answer this?

9. 10 marker

11. Plan in groups… how would you answer the question differently?
20 marker
Plan in groups… how would you answer the question differently?

12. Factors…
Internal
External
Teacher’s racialized expectations
Racist labelling
S.F.P
Streaming
Exclusions
Ethnocentric curriculum
Institutional racism
Marketization and selection
Pupil identities
Cultural deprivation
Cultural capital
Racism in wider society
Language
Family structures
Parental attitudes to education
Subcultures
Peer groups inside/outside school
Sources…
Concepts and issues such as the following may appear: teachers’ racialised expectations; racist labelling; self-fulfilling prophecy; streaming; exclusions; the ethnocentric curriculum; the A*-C economy; institutional racism; marketisation and selection; gender and class differences between ethnic groups;
cultural deprivation; cultural capital; racism in wider society; language; family structures; parental attitudes to education; subcultures/peer groups inside and outside school; pupil identities.
Now… have a go at structuring PEEL paragraphs using some of the internal/external factors.

13. Can you PEEL?
P: As stated in item A ‘sociologists have suggested a wide range of explanations for ethnic differences in educational achievement including family structure’. E L

14. Where did you lose marks?
Lack of evaluation
Lack of planning!!!!
Not PEEELing!
Not thinking about what the question was asking
No statistics used in intro
Structure – did you use an intro and conclusion & 3 PEEEL paragraphs?