AQA Sociology A-Level Paper 2
Questions With Verify Answers
Functionalism and Family 20m plan - Correct Answer - Primary socialisation - Parsons
Stabilisation of adult personalities - Parsons
Functional fit - Parsons
Economic - Murdock
Warm bath theory
Marxism and Family 20m plan - Correct Answer - Ideological control
Inheritance of property
Unit of consumption
Reproduction of workforce
Feminism and Family 20m plan - Correct Answer - Social policy
DDL
Power and DA
Divorce/marriage - women's rights
New Right + Family 20m plan - Correct Answer - Lone parents breed delinquents
Policy should promote the nuclear family
Same sex couple act (not traditional)
Welfare dependency
Postmodernism + family 20m plan - Correct Answer - Social policy
Life course analysis
Sociology of personal life
Risk society
Fallacy of choice - surveillance and policy
Social Policy + family (tailor answers to question) 20m plan - Correct Answer - Divorce
reform act
Same sex marriage act
Contraception act
Equal pay act
Education acts
Children's Act
Married persons tax allowance
Theory views
Gender Division of Labour 20m plan - Correct Answer - Gender DDL
Symmetrical family (equal roles)
,Dual burden/triple shift
Commercialisation of housework
Power relationships and domestic violence 20m plan - Correct Answer - still patriarchal -
dual burden/triple shift
Decision making (men take role)
DA
Power difference between child and adult
Demographics - birth rates 20m plan - Correct Answer - Cost
Women working
Decline in infant mortality
Child-centred society
Lack of need for jobs in children sector
Demographics - death rates 20m plan - Correct Answer - Better health care
burden on women
Ageing population
Grey pound
Support with childcare- allows women to work
Demographics - migration 20m plan - Correct Answer - Push factors
Pull factors
Impact - positive (diversity/skilled workers)
Impact - negative (strain on services/increased racism)
Singlehood/Cohabitation/marriage/divorce 20m plan - Correct Answer - Secularisation
(less religion)
Social policy
Feminism
Changing attitudes - higher expectations
Decrease in divorce 20m plan - Correct Answer - Cohabitation
Symmetrical family
Equal pay/women's independence
Getting married later
Childhood - improving 20m plan - Correct Answer - smaller families
More child centred
Better services - health, education etc.
Children's right and laws
Childhood - getting worse 20m plan - Correct Answer - Toxic childhood
Age patriarchy
Legal controls over children
Stress and anxiety increased
, Childhood - disappearing/blurring 10m plan - Correct Answer - becoming more adult like
- clothes/makeup/activities
Children have access to adult knowledge and material
Childhood - social construction 20m plan - Correct Answer - Cross cultural differences
Historical differences
Difference in the same society - class/gender/ethnicity
Child abuse
Family Diversity - causes 20m plan - Correct Answer - Secularisation
Social policy
changing gender roles
Changing social attitudes
Pester power
Toxic childhood
Adults becoming more childlike
Family Diversity 20m plan - Correct Answer - Less nuclear families
More reconstituted
Increase in same sex families
Increase in symmetrical families
Ownership and control - Marxism 20m plan - Correct Answer - opium of the people
The organisation of the media - owners control (can fire people)
Ideology - pushes capitalism
Construction of news - regulatory favours e.g.
Neo Marxism - Journalists are MC so unintentional bias
media is the opium of the people - Correct Answer - religion used to control us, now
media does
Ownership and control - Neo Marxism 20m plan - Correct Answer - Journalists control -
socialisation - by product
Economic pressures
Agenda setting
Media and the establishment
Ownership and control - Pluralism 20m plan - Correct Answer - Audience controls the
media/consumer power
Concentration is good
Regulatory powers
Journalists - the voice of the people
Ownership and control - new media focus 20m plan - Correct Answer - Impact on
audience - positive (link to pluralism)
Questions With Verify Answers
Functionalism and Family 20m plan - Correct Answer - Primary socialisation - Parsons
Stabilisation of adult personalities - Parsons
Functional fit - Parsons
Economic - Murdock
Warm bath theory
Marxism and Family 20m plan - Correct Answer - Ideological control
Inheritance of property
Unit of consumption
Reproduction of workforce
Feminism and Family 20m plan - Correct Answer - Social policy
DDL
Power and DA
Divorce/marriage - women's rights
New Right + Family 20m plan - Correct Answer - Lone parents breed delinquents
Policy should promote the nuclear family
Same sex couple act (not traditional)
Welfare dependency
Postmodernism + family 20m plan - Correct Answer - Social policy
Life course analysis
Sociology of personal life
Risk society
Fallacy of choice - surveillance and policy
Social Policy + family (tailor answers to question) 20m plan - Correct Answer - Divorce
reform act
Same sex marriage act
Contraception act
Equal pay act
Education acts
Children's Act
Married persons tax allowance
Theory views
Gender Division of Labour 20m plan - Correct Answer - Gender DDL
Symmetrical family (equal roles)
,Dual burden/triple shift
Commercialisation of housework
Power relationships and domestic violence 20m plan - Correct Answer - still patriarchal -
dual burden/triple shift
Decision making (men take role)
DA
Power difference between child and adult
Demographics - birth rates 20m plan - Correct Answer - Cost
Women working
Decline in infant mortality
Child-centred society
Lack of need for jobs in children sector
Demographics - death rates 20m plan - Correct Answer - Better health care
burden on women
Ageing population
Grey pound
Support with childcare- allows women to work
Demographics - migration 20m plan - Correct Answer - Push factors
Pull factors
Impact - positive (diversity/skilled workers)
Impact - negative (strain on services/increased racism)
Singlehood/Cohabitation/marriage/divorce 20m plan - Correct Answer - Secularisation
(less religion)
Social policy
Feminism
Changing attitudes - higher expectations
Decrease in divorce 20m plan - Correct Answer - Cohabitation
Symmetrical family
Equal pay/women's independence
Getting married later
Childhood - improving 20m plan - Correct Answer - smaller families
More child centred
Better services - health, education etc.
Children's right and laws
Childhood - getting worse 20m plan - Correct Answer - Toxic childhood
Age patriarchy
Legal controls over children
Stress and anxiety increased
, Childhood - disappearing/blurring 10m plan - Correct Answer - becoming more adult like
- clothes/makeup/activities
Children have access to adult knowledge and material
Childhood - social construction 20m plan - Correct Answer - Cross cultural differences
Historical differences
Difference in the same society - class/gender/ethnicity
Child abuse
Family Diversity - causes 20m plan - Correct Answer - Secularisation
Social policy
changing gender roles
Changing social attitudes
Pester power
Toxic childhood
Adults becoming more childlike
Family Diversity 20m plan - Correct Answer - Less nuclear families
More reconstituted
Increase in same sex families
Increase in symmetrical families
Ownership and control - Marxism 20m plan - Correct Answer - opium of the people
The organisation of the media - owners control (can fire people)
Ideology - pushes capitalism
Construction of news - regulatory favours e.g.
Neo Marxism - Journalists are MC so unintentional bias
media is the opium of the people - Correct Answer - religion used to control us, now
media does
Ownership and control - Neo Marxism 20m plan - Correct Answer - Journalists control -
socialisation - by product
Economic pressures
Agenda setting
Media and the establishment
Ownership and control - Pluralism 20m plan - Correct Answer - Audience controls the
media/consumer power
Concentration is good
Regulatory powers
Journalists - the voice of the people
Ownership and control - new media focus 20m plan - Correct Answer - Impact on
audience - positive (link to pluralism)
