Education overview quiz - AQA GCSE Sociology quiz

Bowles and Gintis

Durkheim

Becker

Bourdieu

As a unit of consumption that exists mainly to buy goods and services

As a tool of patriarchy that works to keep women subordinate

As a bridge between the family and wider society

As the main source of cultural capital for working-class pupils

The list of formal academic subjects that are timetabled and then assessed in the end-of-year written examinations

The secret marking criteria that examiners keep hidden from teachers and pupils until results day

Extra optional lessons and revision sessions that take place after the normal school day has ended

Everything pupils learn at school that is not formally taught, such as obeying authority and being punctual

Bowles and Gintis

Durkheim and Parsons

Willmott and Young

Davis and Moore

Society genuinely does reward the most talented and hard-working people in a fair and open way

The belief that success is based on merit hides the reality that class advantage is reproduced

Only fee-paying private schools are truly meritocratic, while state schools are not

The whole idea of meritocracy was first invented and named by the functionalist Durkheim

The dark figure of crime

A state of anomie

Cultural capital

The dual burden

A lack of the right attitudes, values and aspirations passed on within the home environment

A lack of the knowledge, language and tastes that schools value, known as cultural capital

A shortage of qualified teachers and support staff within a particular school or local area

A lack of money for things that help learning, such as books, a computer or a quiet space

Girls now outperform boys overall

Boys outperform girls overall

There is no gender gap at all

Only boys form anti-school subcultures

Marx

Becker

Townsend

Murdock

Pupils accurately predicting their own final exam grades before they sit the papers

Teachers simply refusing to mark any of the work that their pupils hand in to them

A label becoming true because the pupil lives up to how they are treated

A school confidently predicting its exact position in the national league tables

An after-school revision club that is organised and run by the teaching staff

The official school council elected by pupils to represent their views to staff

A group of high-achieving pupils who strongly support the values of the school

A group of pupils who reject school values and gain status by breaking rules

Paper 1, with families

Paper 2, with crime

Paper 2, with stratification

A separate skills paper