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Sociology GCSE - Education quiz

Deleted user 18 questions Updated 5 Jan 2017

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  1. 1What are the 5 education roles that schools need to fulfill in order for students to get the best education?
    1. AMoney role, Job role, Social role, Political role, Society control
    2. BEconomic role, selective role, socialisation role, political role, social control
    3. CNone of the above
  2. 2Tick any of these boxes as to what the economic role in education fulfills.
    1. ATo meet with the needs of the economy
    2. BTo make students become the most successful for the best possible jobs
    3. CTo make the school earn more money
    4. DTo teach students the skills needed by industry and business
    5. ETo teach students the skills and knowledge needed by the economy
    6. FTo make students be able to afford the schools' possible financial needs
    7. GTo become effective citizens
  3. 3What does the selective role in education fulfill?
    1. AMatching students to the best jobs they are suited to.
    2. BTo select the best students that they believe would be able to achieve the most success in their school
    3. CTo recommend subjects etc. to students
  4. 4[blank_start]Social control, formal, or informal,[blank_end] is the way a school encourages and discourages behaviour. For example, the [blank_start]formal usage[blank_end] can involve the [blank_start]usage of sanctions[blank_end] e.g. detentions and [blank_start]rewards[blank_end] e.g. certificates. This role can also be fulfilled [blank_start]informally,[blank_end] for example, peers make fun of you when you do something embarrasing.
    1. ASociety control
    2. BPolitical control
    3. CSocial control
    4. Dformal usage
    5. Einformal usage
    6. Fproper usage
    7. Grewarding students
    8. Husage of sanctions
    9. Irewards
    10. Jpunishment
    11. Kformally
    12. Linformally
  5. 5People are taught how to become effective citizens and creating a sense of social cohesion (togetherness.) What educational role is this?
    1. ACitizenship role
    2. BPolitical role
    3. CSocialisation role
  6. 6Fill in the blanks on the history of education in chronological order. One has been done for you.
    1870 Education Act, 1944 [blank_start]Butler Education Act[blank_end], 1965 [blank_start]Comprehensive Education Labour[blank_end], Introduction of [blank_start]vocational education and coursework[blank_end], 1988 [blank_start]Education Reform Act[blank_end], 1997 [blank_start]New Labour[blank_end], 2010 [blank_start]Present Conservative government[blank_end]
    1. AComprehensive Education Labour
    2. BGCSEs and A levels 1980
    3. CIntroduction of Applied A levels 1980
    4. Dvocational education and coursework 1980
    5. EEducation Reform Act
    6. FNew Labour
    7. GPresent Conservative government
    8. HButler Education Act
  7. 7Gender plays a major role in education in our society.

    Girls outperform boys in almost all GCSE and A level subjects, except Maths.
    Boys however, get slightly more A* than girls in A level.

    Why do girls and boys achieve differently?
    1. AGirls are self-critical; they are able to improve upon their work, and that they think they aren't perfect.
    2. BBoys are self-confident; they are able to take tasks with confidence with little to no hesitation.
    3. CGirls prefer to be methodical, whereas boys prefer to be competitive and perform hands-on tasks.
    4. DIn gender roles, boys tend to have toys that encourage them to thrill-seek and seek to get instant gratification, whereas girls have toys e.g. dolls that encourage girls to communicate as if they were real human beings, linking to the world of work.
  8. 8The national curriculum in state-funded schools has discouraged girls from taking science subjects. True or false?
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  9. 9Which case study revolved around the ideas of self-fulfilling prophecy and labelling?
    1. ARosenthal and Jacobsen
    2. BAlbert Bandura
    3. CAristotle
  10. 10Select answers from the box under this line of text.

    Upwards/downwards [blank_start]social mobility[blank_end] is moving up or down the class structure. People can achieve upwards [blank_start]social mobility[blank_end] if they [blank_start]defer gratification[blank_end], which is to make sacrifices for their own achievement and benefit. People can show instant gratification, meaning that they want fun instantly, which can deteriorate the attention span of students.

    Working class students are more likely to favour [blank_start]collectivism[blank_end], meaning that they prefer to form with groups of students, in which they are either more disruptive and want more fun (this is called an [blank_start]anti-school[blank_end] subculture.) However, some groups want to achieve well together and create study groups to do the best in exams. (this is called a [blank_start]pro-school[blank_end] subculture.) This form of subculture is more common in middle class students than working class students.

    These factors are one of the many that affect students from moving up or down the social class structure.
    1. Asocial mobility
    2. Bsocial promotion/demotion
    3. Cacademic achievement
    4. Dsocial mobility
    5. Esocial promotion
    6. Fdefer gratification
    7. Gfavour gratification
    8. Hcollectivism
    9. Ibeing supportive
    10. Janti-school
    11. Kdisruptive school
    12. Lnegative school
    13. Mgood school
    14. Nadvantage-school
    15. Opro-school

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Note: At question 6, put your policy choice answers in numeric order. Answers in (1) indicate first choice whereas (2) indicates second choice.
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