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How can religion lead to Social Change?(10 marks)

Bloch argued that religion could lead to social change because it had the ability to inspire protest and rebellion. Item A says “religious beliefs can sometimes lead believers to act in ways that have unfore...
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Can you explain the Paul Willis' take on the education in 'Learning to Labour'?

Paul Willis has published a book called 'Learning to Labour', where he discussed the anti-school subculture at schools in 1977. He did an experiment on 12 working class schoolboys from the Midlands to observ...
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What are moral panics and folk devils?

The term moral panic was originally created by Stan Cohen. He argued that the media exagerrated certain crimes in the news, this then created a panic as the more media coverage there was the more arrests tha...
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How can i ensure i use A03 in my essay?

In the mark scheme A03 Is described as analysis and evaluation of sociological concepts. To ensure you include this in your answer make sure you don't just focus on describing the concepts. One of the most c...
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Outline 2 cultural factors that may affect ethnic differences in educational achievement (4 marks)

One factor highlighted by Beretier and Engelmann is differing speech codes. They note that poor black families tend to use 'ungrammatical', broken English, putting them at a disadvantage in achieving educati...
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