TCE SociologyPractice Examination 18

This paper covers

• Section A stimuli: a constructed item on retail self-checkout surveillance; a constructed item on a young carer's changing identity; a constructed item on drug use differing across social class in media coverage; a constructed item on hunting seen differently in rural and urban communities.
• Section A emphasis: Q2 identity, requiring critique of interactionism with structural views.
• Section B lead institutions: Q5 stratification led by education; Q6 power and politics led by work; Q7 interrelationships led by media; Q8 changes over time led by family.
• Section B stimuli, one per institution: family: a constructed item on intergenerational wealth transfer; education: a constructed item on elite-school networks; work: a constructed item on professional licensing; media: a constructed item on paywalls and access to news.
• Criterion 7: formal third-person register and accurate sociological terms.

Students are permitted to bring into the examination the materials normally allowed for this subject. Answer all questions in the spaces provided.

This is an ATARMAxxing practice paper. It is not an official examination and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by the VCAA, NESA or the QCAA.