AQA GCSE Sociology · 8192
Paper 1, Paper 2
Revise: Knowledge and UnderstandingMarxism focuses on class inequality under capitalism. Marxists question whether schooling benefits everyone equally, arguing that it can reproduce class inequalities and encourage acceptance of workplace hierarchies. They challenge the idea that educational rewards always reflect talent and effort when pupils have unequal resources and opportunities.
- Revise: Functions of Families
A conflict perspective which focuses on class inequality and how institutions support capitalism and the interests of the owning class.
- Revise: Criticisms of Families
An approach which examines class inequality and argues that capitalist society benefits owners at the expense of workers.
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- Revise: Roles and Functions of Education
A perspective that focuses on class inequality and the ways institutions can maintain the power of the capitalist ruling class.
- Revise: Education and Capitalism
A sociological perspective which emphasises conflict between social classes and argues that capitalist institutions help maintain the power and advantages of the owning class.
- Revise: Functionalist Theory of Stratification
A sociological perspective which explains class inequality through ownership, power and the exploitation of workers by the capitalist class.
- Revise: Family roles and sociological perspectives
A sociological perspective that explains inequality through class conflict and the organisation of capitalist society.
- Revise: Education key terms
A sociological perspective which emphasises class inequality and the relationship between institutions and capitalism.
- Revise: Crime and deviance key terms
A perspective drawing on Karl Marx’s work, emphasising class conflict and the exploitation of workers by capitalist owners.
- Revise: Stratification Perspectives Key Terms
A sociological perspective that explains class inequality through ownership of the means of production, exploitation and conflict between classes.
- Revise: Capitalism, Family and Personal Life by Zaretsky
A sociological perspective that focuses on class inequality and conflict under capitalism, particularly between business owners and workers.
- Revise: Schooling in Capitalist America by Bowles and Gintis
A sociological perspective that explains society through class inequality and conflict, particularly between those who own productive resources and those who work for them.
- Revise: Learning to Labour by Willis
A sociological perspective which examines class inequality and conflict, particularly between those who own businesses and those who work for them.