TCE SociologyPractice Examination 8

This paper covers

• Section A stimuli: a constructed item on peer pressure and fashion conformity; a constructed item on influencer beauty standards and self-image; a constructed item on white-collar fraud by a company manager; a constructed item on skateboarding moving from deviant to Olympic sport.
• Section A emphasis: Q2 identity, requiring critique of interactionism with structural views.
• 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 divorce and shared parenting; education: a constructed item on laptops and the digital divide; work: a constructed item on four-day work week trials; media: a constructed item on moral panic about a video game.
• Criterion 7: formal third-person register and accurate sociological terms.

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