This activity is designed for Cambridge OCR A Level Sociology, Paper 2: Researching and understanding social inequalities. OCR’s specification says learners should explore social inequality in relation to social class, gender, ethnicity and age, and should examine patterns and trends across different areas of social life rather than treating one inequality in isolation. The OCR delivery guide also stresses that students should collect and critically examine evidence in order to draw sociological conclusions about inequality.
This Ethnicity and Life Chances Mapper helps students do exactly that. They click through schooling, employment, policing, housing and health, then decide how ethnic inequality works in each area before building an overall map of life chances. OCR examiner feedback has noted that stronger responses on ethnic inequalities often used a range of social areas such as education, work, employment and health, so this activity is designed to build that wider, more connected way of thinking.
Ethnicity and Life Chances Mapper
Click through institutions, map how ethnic inequality works, and then build an overall sociological judgement.
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Overall map of ethnic inequality
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