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#40 Day Challenge Day 19 – Ageing Population and Family

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  • posted on 29 Apr 201929 Apr 2019
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Nearly at the half-way point with just 22 days of revision to go until the Paper 1 exam on May 22nd. Today I have set the challenge of making the link between the ageing population and changes in the
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#40DayChallenge – Day 18 Feminism

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  • posted on 28 Apr 201928 Apr 2019
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In the past, short answer questions on the major theories were not something students would expect. However, last year one of the questions for students was to outline and explain two ways the
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#40DayChallenge Day 17 – Globalisation and Family

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  • posted on 27 Apr 201927 Apr 2019
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Two key topic areas seem to be causing a lot of concern when it comes to revision. Lots of teachers and students have sent messages asking me to cover aspects of social policy and globalisation. With
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#40DayChallenge Day 16 – Practical limitations of Self Completition Questionnaires

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  • posted on 26 Apr 201926 Apr 2019
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Today’s 40 Day challenge is on research methods. Given that 2 of the 8 ten mark questions across the 3 papers are on either Theory or Methods this is the eighth theory methods question I have
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#40DayChallenge Day 15 Social Policy and Gender Roles

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  • posted on 25 Apr 201925 Apr 2019
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Today we are going back to family and looking at the Outline and Explain question. Lots of requests to look at social policy for all areas of the specification so I have gone with another social
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#40DayChallenge Day 14 – Theoretical Advantages of Interpretivism

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  • posted on 24 Apr 201924 Apr 2019
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Today the focus is on the theoretical part of research methods and specifically Interpretivist methodology. Whilst this is not a question type that we have seen so far in the AQA exams, for me it is
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#40DayChallenge – Day 13 – Social Policy and Birth Rate

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  • posted on 23 Apr 201923 Apr 2019
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Today I am going to be setting a question on Families and Households instead of Education. Whilst I recognise that Education is the first paper (a mere 28 days away!) there are 2 10 mark questions of
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#40DayChallenge Day 12 – Ethics and Covert Observations

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  • posted on 22 Apr 201922 Apr 2019
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Today’s question switches from looking at the theoretical debates on the theory and methods 10 mark questions to the methods that sociologists use. Two years ago, in the first examination of
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#40DayChallenge Day 11 – Functions of Education

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  • posted on 21 Apr 2019
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We are 25% of the way through the #40DayChallenge now and I have been really grateful for all of the positive feedback I have had and how students and teachers have taken to spreading the work
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#40DayChallenge – Day 10 Sociology and Social Policy

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  • posted on 20 Apr 2019
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Today’s question on the #40DayChallenge in on Theory and Methods. One of the debates under the banner of theory and methods is should sociology inform social policy. Today’s question
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