AQA GCSE Sociology · 8192

Educational Achievement

What you need to know

Explain the varying demographic factors that affect educational achievement, specifically class, gender, and ethnicity.
Evaluate the work of Halsey concerning class-based inequalities in educational outcomes.
Assess Ball's key ideas on the impact of parental choice and competition between schools.
Compare and contrast functionalist, feminist, and Marxist sociological perspectives on the determinants of educational achievement.