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How would sociologists define crime?

A simple definition of crime would be that a criminal behaviour is a behaviour that is breaking the law. However, crime is a much more complex concept to define. To extend the previous simple definition, cri...
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Identify and briefly explain two ways in which gendered subject choice in reinforced within schools (a typical 4 mark question)

Gendered subject image is one of the key factors contributing to the divide between subjects which have come to be associated with typically male or female students within schools. For example, subjects such...
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Discuss factors within schools that may lead to the educational under-achievement of pupils from some minority ethnic groups.

One internal factor that may lead to the educational underachievement of pupils from some minority ethnic groups is labelling and teacher racism. Gillborn (1990) and Gillborn and Youdell (2000) studied teach...
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What are material factors and how do they affect educational achievement?

This question needs to be broken down in to two elements; 1 st what is material capital and what are examples of material capital 2 nd what is educational achievement and how can this be shown in schools. To...
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Explain and briefly evaluate the view that age is the most important source of an individual’s identity.  (24 marks)

Whilst age can be considered from a chronological (biological) perspective, it is arguable that age identity is a social construction; it is learned through the processes of primary and secondary socialisati...
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