Sociology Revision
Saturday, 14 April 2012
Explaining girl's improvement
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Changes in attitude - Girls and young women's attitudes towards education, work and marriage seem to have changed. Sue Sharpe compared ...
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Gender and educational acheivement
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Results obtained from a table of the percentage of pupils attaining five or more GCSE grades A*-C in England shows that girls have continuou...
Explanations - Why pupils with working class backgrounds are less successful
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Material deprivation - A lack of money and the things money can buy A lack of encouragement, stimulation and interest from parents Working...
Social class and educational attainment
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Some researchers argue that class difference in attainment result in the sifting, sorting and assessment of pupils in terms of teachers'...
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Education - Participant Observation
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David Hargreaves (1967) examined the effects of streaming on the behaviour of students and teachers in a boy's secondary school. He used...
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Friday, 6 April 2012
The internet
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More recently the internet has made a vast range of data and research available to sociologists that was very hard to access before. The int...
Content Analysis
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Most documentary data is qualitative, but it is possible to convert this into quantitative data using content analysis. Using this technique...
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