TCE SociologyPractice Examination 15

This paper covers

• Section A stimuli: a constructed item on corporate onboarding and workplace culture; a constructed item on a student changing schools mid-year and remaking friendships; a constructed item on hoon driving in a rural town; a constructed item on public drinking laws at festivals versus streets.
• Section A emphasis: Q3 deviance theories, stressing Hirschi and differential association.
• Section B lead institutions: Q5 stratification led by work; Q6 power and politics led by media; Q7 interrelationships led by family; Q8 changes over time led by education.
• Section B stimuli, one per institution: family: a constructed item on family violence services, framed in general structural terms; education: a constructed item on Austudy and staying in study; work: a constructed item on retirement age changes; media: a constructed item on ownership of regional radio.
• Criterion 7: balanced strengths and limitations of each theory.

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