TCE SociologyPractice Examination 12

This paper covers

• Section A stimuli: a constructed item on a school code of conduct and detention; a constructed item on a teenager's first part-time job; a constructed item on a prison-population data table labelled 'constructed for practice'; a constructed item on gendered expectations of crying in public.
• Section A emphasis: Q1 social control, stressing formal and informal sanctions.
• Section B lead institutions: Q5 stratification led by media; Q6 power and politics led by family; Q7 interrelationships led by education; Q8 changes over time led by work.
• Section B stimuli, one per institution: family: a constructed item on cohabitation before marriage; education: a constructed item on teacher expectations; work: a constructed item on the gender pay gap presented as constructed data; media: a constructed item on agenda setting in an election campaign.
• Criterion 7: evaluative topic sentences and a judgement in the conclusion.

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