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Alex Godman has spent his life trying to avoid the shadow of his family’s past, but when tragedy strikes, he is drawn into the world of international crime. Starring James Norton.

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Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks

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An ambitious young DCI enters the terrifying world of deepfake technology.

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Death on the Thames: Assassination in London (Part 1)

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BBC Panorama 22/11/18 Salisbury Nerve Agent Attack the Inside Story

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The UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "We are clear that the UK should handle more of its waste at home, and that's why we are committed to banning the export of plastic waste to non-OECD countries and clamping down on illegal waste exports - including to countries such as Turkey - through tougher controls.

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UK plastic waste being dumped and burned in Turkey, says Greenpeace

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The UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "We are clear that the UK should handle more of its waste at home, and that's why we are committed to banning the export of plastic waste to non-OECD countries and clamping down on illegal waste exports - including to countries such as Turkey - through tougher controls.

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The education system is failing the UK economy. A bold statement, but does it ring true? Employers are constantly complaining that they can't recruit young people with the skills they need to succeed in the extremely competitive marketplace. So what's going wrong?

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Getting Kicked Out Of Lessons | Educating The East End (HD) | EP4 | Our Stories

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Should we treat environmental crime more like murder?

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Serial killers and violent criminals dominate the headlines. What if we covered ecocide and pollution in the same way?

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How Pablo Escobar Became the Most Wanted Man In The World (Ep1)

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Social media, anti-social media, breaking news, fake news - A range of topical issue

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We need to talk about prisons | Sara Hyde | TEDxExeter

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Most screen versions of true crime play fast and loose with the facts.

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t was, so the introduction to The Gold suggests, "the largest robbery in world history and changed British crime and policing for ever". We are also told that the six-part BBC series was "inspired by real events" but "some characters and elements have been created and changed for dramatic purposes".

So how much of the re-enactment of the Brink's-Mat £26m robbery of gold bullion in 1983 is true - one former detective described it as a "travesty" - and why do some major crimes make it on to the screen and others not?

At the centre of The Gold are the detective Brian Boyce, played by Hugh Bonneville, and Kenneth Noye, played by Jack Lowden. Both are real characters. One former colleague of Boyce says: "The casting is spot on. He was a very professional detective. One of the best bosses ever."

Noye, who is portrayed as a Jack the Lad character, was a cool, calculating customer who, having been acquitted of the murder of the undercover police officer John Fordham was later convicted of handling the stolen goods. He duly told the jury: "I hope you all die of cancer."

What we do not learn is that, having served his bullion sentence, Noye came out of prison and stabbed 21-year-old Stephen Cameron to death in a road rage case in 1996, fled to Spain with a new identity, but was extradited and jailed for life, eventually serving another 18 years.

He is now free and the subject of a new book, A Million Ways to Stay on the Run.

John "Goldfinger" Palmer, who was acquitted of similar Brink's-Mat offences - he duly blew a grateful kiss to the jury - was also in reality a fairly ruthless operator, who moved to Tenerife and took advantage of gullible souls, who were conned into investing in timeshare apartments.

"My abiding memory of him is that he was a very tight little fellow and hated parting with any money in spite of the fact that he had millions," was how the late Jason Coghlan, a former armed robber described him.

Palmer was jailed for timeshare fraud in 2001, then murdered at his home in 2015, a killing for which no one has yet been charged. Of the actual bullion robbers, Micky McAvoy died just a few weeks before The Gold was screened and Brian Robinson in 2022.

Another former detective summed up The Gold as "great TV drama but absolute travesty of initial investigation strategy and police culture".

As for the invented lawyer character, Edwyn Cooper, played by Dominic Cooper, there was indeed a solicitor, Michael Relton, who was jailed for 12 years for his involvement and who had represented police officers previously.

Relton was described in court by the sentencing judge as a "parasite". One of his associates, who has been watching the series, described the lawyer character's apparent obsession with money and class as "absolute tosh".

What is certainly true is that some of those intimately involved in the robbery have never been caught, that some of the proceeds were invested in Docklands developments - and that Noye was very much involved in the Freemasons, as were many police officers.

Some famous robberies have, of course, already made it on to the screen. The late Bruce Reynolds, who masterminded the Great Train Robbery, reckoned the best representation of it was the German version, Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse, which was dubbed into English for the international market.

He described Buster, the film about his fellow robber Ronald "Buster" Edwards as "Carry On, Great Train Robbery".

The Bank Job, which came out in 2008 starring Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows, was based on the real 1971 robbery of a Lloyds branch in Baker Street in London.

According to its publicity material, "millions and millions of pounds" were stolen but "none of it was recovered. Nobody was ever arrested. The robbery made headlines for a few days and then disappeared - the result of a government D-notice, gagging the press."

All cheerful nonsense: four of the gang were jailed for a total of 48 years, £231,000 was recovered and there was no D-notice.

What was at the time believed to be the world's biggest cash robbery - since overtaken by the Central Bank of Iraq heist of a reported $930m (£775m) in 2003 - was that of the Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, in 2006.

The book on the case, Heist by Howard Sounes, has not yet been dramatised for the screen although there is much interest in it.

Another story waiting is that of Shirley Pitts, the Queen of the Shoplifters, and the subject of Lorraine Gamman's book Gone Shopping. Two decades ago it seemed about to happen - a wonderful part for an actor - but the project seems sadly becalmed. Also still to be told is the tale of the cat burglar and "gentleman thief" Peter Scott. The film-maker Roland Kennedy, who was with Scott when he died in a care home in east London in 2013, is on the case now.

As for those criminals who find themselves portrayed on screen in a strange variety of ways, they might echo the words given to the gangster Legs Diamond in Harvey Fierstein's 1988 musical of that name: "I'm in show business, only a critic can kill me."

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Fact or fiction? The truth behind TV crime dramas

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ometimes there are small errors in headlines that can quickly be amended and all is forgiven. Sometimes there are opinion pieces that are a little simplistic and could do with a drizzle of evidence and a garnish of nuance. Other times there are spear tackles of successful women that ponder whether they "can have it all".

This relic of a phrase is still invoked in our media from the BBC to newspaper tabloids.

A recent Daily Telegraph piece featured a handful of high profile women in the media who have separated from their husbands. Positioned as sympathetic, but ultimately scorching, the headline read: "Why love is the price celebrity women pay for their status." Despite failing the public interest pub test, having no insight into the dynamics of the various relationships or acknowledging that the separations happened over the course of several years, the column concluded the women "could not juggle a demanding career, marriage and parenting young children".

Naturally, the long list of divorced men in the industry wasn't included, nor was there an examination of the issues women in the public eye unfairly and disproportionately face. Things like the enormous amount of vicious trolling and harassment we experience online. Or the fact that appearance and age still play such a big role in our employment prospects. It definitely didn't factor in structural issues, like affordable childcare, maternity leave policies and the role men play in parenting and domestic work. I mean, that's all just so dull and evidence-based.

Instead, the article tenuously tied all of these women together, in a bid to show that our feminist foresisters shouldn't have bothered burning their bras, because now their pants are on fire because we were lied to. You see, women can't "have it all".

But it's not just a tabloid takedown weaponising this question. Just last month, in a now deleted BBC headline following Jacinda Ardern's shock resignation the boringly cliche question was rolled out again. Despite explaining that she didn't have "enough in the tank" to continue being an effective leader, the article examines Ardern's life as a working mother of a small child. Would the youngest male head of government who led New Zealand through the pandemic, and on tragedies including the terrorist attacks in Christchurch, and the White Island volcanic eruption get asked such a question, or an article about his resignation mention a young child?

'Having it all' is now largely weaponised against professional mothers

I'm not sure who decided women want it all. And even if some do, who has decided what "all" is?

While the phrase "having it all" became popular in the 1980s due to a book by the same name, its very genesis has since been debunked as both a misrepresentation and a myth.

Written by Helen Gurley Brown, who was the then-editor of US Cosmopolitan magazine, the self-help book for women made almost no mention of children and was largely about money, sex, diet, exercise and appearance.

The title has since been exposed as a marketing gimmick, one the author tried hard, but failed to have changed. Four decades later, "having it all" is a far less aspirational goal and a far more capricious penalty.

"Having it all" is now largely weaponised against professional mothers. It's a bar men aren't expected to reach, and yet it's one that continually shifts and moves for women. By its very design, all unwilling participants are destined to fail.

We need a new metric - or heck, our own individualised metrics - because what is "all"? If you choose not to have children, haven't found your soul mate and have zero interest in a seat at a boardroom table, do you have "nothing"?

We should be having more conversations and columns about priorities, self-care, sacrifice, timing and opportunity costs. A fairer and more realistic metric is one that doesn't reward a system where women are expected to do it all.

Feminists have fought, and continue to fight for women to have choices. To have agency. To have autonomy over our bodies and our lives.

Growing up, I was surrounded by women who had low to no job skills, no financial independence and very limited education. I witnessed many endure and stay in violent relationships, their health, happiness and wellbeing continues to be neglected or ignored entirely.

As far as objective statistics go, several decades into their nuptials, these women in my family are a raging marital success story.

Unfair attacks on the marital status of high-profiled mothers who are shifting public policy and challenging gender expectation are a mere distraction from the work that still needs to be done.

The face of homelessness in this country is women over the age of 50. First Nations women are the fastest growing prison population. A decade-high number of women were killed in December, 10 women in 20 days were allegedly murdered by a current or former partner.

This is the "price" women continue to pay in Australia.

Antoinette Lattouf is a broadcaster, columnist, author and co-founder of Media Diversity Australia. She was listed among AFR's 100 Women of Influence. Antoinette is also an ambassador for the Gidget Foundation

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This volume brings Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden’s pioneering ‘Education and the Working Class’ from 1962 up to date for the 21st century and reveals what we

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In the UK, education is one of the big political battlefields for governments and opposition alike. It also seems to represent somewhere where the class war still endures. Opponents of private schooling deride the privileged few who seem to rise to the top of most professions. The state system is also under fire. Hundreds of schools have been classed as failing, teachers are leaving in droves - and thousands of children are left, it is claimed, without proper qualifications or any prospect of a decent job in the future.

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Fifteen pupils and their teachers embark on an extraordinary time-travelling adventure.

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Is the way we treat boys and girls the real reason we haven't achieved gender equality?

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Poorer pupils still missing out on grammar school places in England

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Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are struggling to get into grammar schools in many parts of England, despite changes to admissions procedures aimed at helping them gain entry, according to research.

A quarter of England's 160 state grammar schools have fewer than 5% of their pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM), compared with 22.5% of children nationwide. In contrast, only 13 of England's 2,877 non-selective state secondary schools have fewer than 5% of pupils receiving FSM.

The research, conducted by the BBC using Department for Education data, found that while most grammar schools have adapted their entry criteria to encourage more disadvantaged children to win places, in most cases it has failed to make a substantial difference to the numbers admitted.

Sir Peter Lampl, the chair of the Sutton Trust, which campaigns for social mobility through education, said: "While most grammars have made changes to their admissions policies, this hasn't yet translated into a dramatic improvement in access. Free school meal rates at most grammars are still well below the national average."

State grammar schools select children using exams taken in the final year of primary school by children aged 10. But since 2016 grammar schools have been given more leeway to vary their selection procedures, including variable exam scores and priority places for those receiving FSM, as well as adopting "tutor-proof" aptitude tests.

Success stories include the King Edward VI foundation grammar schools in Birmingham, which reserve places for FSM-eligible pupils. The King Edward VI Aston school has 25% of its pupils receiving free meals, while the King Edward VI Camp Hill school for boys has admitted 24% and the school for girls 22%.

Queen Mary's girls' high school in Walsall has priority admissions for candidates receiving FSM, and 22% of pupils are eligible.

Birmingham and Walsall have high proportions of deprived children - the Birmingham local authority has 47% of children eligible for FSM, while Walsall has 38%.

Across England more than 1.9 million schoolchildren were eligible for FSM this year, in most cases because they live in households with an annual income below £7,400 and receive universal credit or other benefits.

The BBC's investigation found that few grammar schools had as many as half the proportion of pupils on FSM as live in their local authority, with most having only a fifth to a third as many.

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In the worst cases the proportion was much lower: Chesham grammar school in Buckinghamshire had just 1% of its pupils eligible for FSM, despite giving priority to those children within a local catchment area. Across Buckinghamshire 14% of children are eligible for FSM.

Lampl said all young people deserved the chance to attend grammar schools, not just those whose parents could afford extra tutoring for entry exams.

"In order to improve access schools should prioritise pupil premium and free school meals kids and engage in extensive outreach in primary schools in order to encourage a wide range of applications," Lampl said.

The BBC also found that existing grammar schools had expanded at a faster rate than pupil numbers overall. While Rishi Sunak said during the Conservative leadership election he supported opening new grammar schools, he has since dropped the idea in favour of curriculum changes.

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Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are struggling to get into grammar schools in many parts of England, despite changes to admissions procedures aimed at helping them gain entry, according to research. A quarter of England's 160 state grammar schools have fewer than 5% of their pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM), compared with 22.5% of children nationwide.

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By Nathan Standley, education reporter & Nick Eardley, political correspondent

Rishi Sunak is considering a major reform of A-levels in England which could see the introduction of a new "British baccalaureate".

The prime minister's plans could include the compulsory study of maths and English up to the age of 18, according to newspaper reports.

The shake-up of A-levels would be controversial - but no final decision has been taken.

Labour said the proposals were an "undeliverable gimmick".

The government has denied that Mr Sunak is trying to find radical proposals which will help his party in the polls, with No 10 saying this week that the prime minister is focused on long-term solutions.

Mr Sunak initially suggested the idea of a new baccalaureate qualification during his unsuccessful leadership campaign against Liz Truss last year, and has previously said he wants all young people to study maths to 18.

It is possible the prime minister will set out more of his plans for education at the Conservative Party conference in October.

Andrew Mitchell, who attends Cabinet in his role as a Foreign Office minister, said he expects Mr Sunak to agree to a significant reform of England's education system.

"We will be guided by the best expertise on how we ratchet up standards and give children the best possible chance of getting the graduate jobs of the future," he told BBC Radio 4.

About half of 18-year-olds in England currently take A-levels, typically sitting exams in three subjects.

In 2021, the EDSK education think tank said the dominance of A-levels in secondary education was "inescapable" and that they were too narrow, calling for a new baccalaureate qualification to replace them.

In theory, it would broaden the curriculum to cover any academic, applied and technical subject which students could gradually specialise in over the course of a three-year qualification.

Education is devolved in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, so decisions in each nation are taken by devolved governments.

The proposal for England is being called a "British baccalaureate" to differentiate it from the current English baccalaureate, which is a separate set of subjects at GCSE level.

Any educational reform in England would be controversial, and concerns have already been raised about the potential impact on existing recruitment and retention issues within teaching.

David Robinson, director for post-16 and skills at the Education Policy Institute, said steps to broaden the curriculum were "encouraging", but added that it would cause an increase in workload for teachers.

Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, called it a "sketchy proposal" and said teaching was already facing a "recruitment and retention crisis".

A spokesperson for the Sixth Form Colleges Association said the post-16 curriculum, which is "narrow by international standards", was partly reflective of "chronic underinvestment in sixth form education since 2010".

The government is already working through its rollout of T-levels, a new vocational qualification which the first cohort of students started in 2020.

Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson accused Mr Sunak of "pursuing short-term headlines" with an "unworkable policy".

A Department for Education spokesperson did not comment directly on the proposals, but said the government was already "reforming technical education", and had set out "bold plans" to facilitate the study of maths up to the age of 18.

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Exploring social deviance and societal perceptions
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This influential work, Outsiders, explores social deviance and the impact of societal labels, continuing to inspire discussions and research today.

In Outsiders, Howard S. Becker delves into the complexities of social deviance, presenting a groundbreaking perspective that has shaped the field of sociology since its release in the early 1960s. This seminal work challenges conventional notions of conformity and deviance, arguing that societal labels play a crucial role in defining what is considered 'normal' or 'deviant'. Becker's insights have sparked extensive debate and research, making Outsiders a pivotal text in understanding the dynamics of social behavior and the impact of societal norms.

The new edition of Outsiders includes two previously unpublished essays that enrich the original content. In "Why Was Outsiders a Hit? Why Is It Still a Hit?", Becker reflects on the historical context that contributed to the book's initial success and its enduring relevance. He highlights how the cultural shifts of the 1960s resonated with readers, allowing the ideas presented to transcend time and continue to provoke thought in contemporary discussions about deviance and society.

Additionally, the essay "Why I Should Get No Credit For Legalizing Marijuana" offers a critical examination of the journey toward decriminalization, presenting Becker's views on public opinion and the sociological implications of changing attitudes towards marijuana. This fresh material not only enhances the understanding of the original text but also invites new generations to engage with the ongoing conversation around social norms and deviance.

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How can we understand the educational disengagement of urban, working-class young people?

What role do schools and education policies play in these young people's difficult relationships with education?

How might schools help to support and engage urban youth?

This book critically engages with contemporary notions of 'at risk' youth. It explores the complexity of urban young people's relationships with education and schooling and discusses strategies for addressing these issues.
Drawing on a two year study of urban 14-16 year olds, educational professionals and parents, the book focuses in depth on the views and experiences of ethnically diverse young Londoners who had been identified by their schools as 'at risk of dropping out of education' and as 'unlikely to progress into post-16 education'.

It provides an informative and accessible overview of the key issues, debates and theoretical frameworks. It is important reading for school leaders, teachers and learning support assistants as well as trainee teachers and educational researchers.

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This book which has now established itself as a classic study of working class boys describes how Paul Willis followed a group of 'lads' as they passed through the last two years of school and into work. The book explains that for 'the lads' it is their own culture which blocks teaching and prevents the realisation of liberal education aims. This culture exposes some of the contradictions within these formal aims and actually supplies the operational criteria by which a future in wage labour is judged. Paul Willis explores how their own culture can guide working class lads on to the shop floor. This is an uncompromising book which has provoked considerable discussion and controversy in educational circles throughout the world - it has been translated into Finnish, German, French, Swedish, Japanese and Spanish.

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A Level Sociology Exam Questions | A Level Sociology Essay Plan
This page provides the following information:

An overview of the three exam papers for AQA A-level sociology (paper 1: education with theory, paper 2: topics, and paper 3: crime with theory)

Links to posts offering specific advice on how to answer each of these papers, including the 2017 and 2018 sociology exams.

Links to dozens of exemplar answers for the five different types of question you'll find across the three sociology papers.

An Overview of the Three Sociology Exam Papers

There are three exam papers for AQA A-level sociology. All papers are two hours long, all papers have a total of 6 questions (the format of some of these repeat across papers), and all papers are marked out of a total of 80.

Paper 1: Education with Theory and Methods - the education section has one 4 and one 6 mark 'outline and explain question', a 10 mark 'item' question and a 30 mark essay question. Then there is a 20 mark applying methods to education essay question, and a 10 mark (no item) theory or methods question.

Paper 2: Topics in Sociology (the main options are families and beliefs). You answer one section from part A and one from part B, so two sections in total. All sections have three questions: one 10 mark (with item) question, one 10 mark (no item) question and one 20 mark essay question.

Paper 3: Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods -the crime section has one 4 and one 6 mark 'outline and explain question', a 10 mark 'item' question and a 30 mark essay question. Then there is a and a 10 mark (no item) theory and/ or methods question, and finally a 20 mark theory and/ or methods essay question.

For more advice on each paper and examples of specific questions and answer, please scroll down!
A Level Sociology Paper 1: Education with Theory and Methods
This section provides links to specific questions and model answers which either have, or could appear on this paper. Please scroll down for papers 2 and 3!
General advice for answering questions on paper 1

10 mark 'applying material from the item analyse questions'

20 mark methods in context questions

30 mark education essay questions

10 mark theory and/ or methods outline and explain (no item) 10 mark questions
Remember that this type of question also appears at the end of paper 3!
A Level Sociology Paper 2: Topics
General advice on all questions
Families and Households
Examples of possible 10 mark questions for AQA A-Level sociology: families and households topic 10 mark 'outline and explain' (no item) questions 10 mark 'applying material from the item analyse questions' 20 mark essay questions
Beliefs in Society (aka Religion)
Outline and explain two ways in which religion might promote social change Outline and explain two ways in which religious organisations have changed in response to globalisation Outline and explain two reasons why some groups are more likely to join World Rejecting New Religious Movements than others (10) Outline and explain two arguments against the view that sociology is a science (10)
Applying material from the item, analyse two reasons why younger people are generally less religious than older people (10)

Applying material from the item, analyse two criticisms of the view that religion is merely a tool of oppression (10)

Applying material from the item, analyse two reasons for gender differences in the membership of religious organisations (10)
Evaluate the view that extent of secularisation has been exaggerated (20)
Evaluate the view that religion no longer acts as a 'shared universe of meaning' for people today (20)
Evaluate the view that religious beliefs and organisations are barriers to social change (20)
Media
Outline and explain two ways in which the new media may be creating a global popular culture. [10 marks] Analyse two reasons why the media portray minority ethnic groups negatively. [10 marks]
Evaluate the pluralist view of the ownership and control of the media (20)
Evaluate the view that the media have a direct and immediate effect on their audiences [20 marks] Applying material from Item B and your knowledge, evaluate the view that the media portray women in a stereotypical way [20 marks]
Global Development
Outline and explain two criticisms other theories of development might make of dependency theory (10) Outline and explain two reasons why trade does not always promote development (10)
Evaluate explanations of development and underdevelopment put forward by Dependency Theorists (20)

A Level Sociology Paper 3: Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods

General advice on answering all questions

4 and 6 mark 'outline and explain questions'

10 mark 'applying material from the item analyse questions'

30 mark crime and deviance essays

AS level sociology resources
There are two 90 minute papers at the end of the AS year, and three two hour papers at the end of the A Level Year. Remember that if you do the AS qualification, your grades don't count towards the A level, you are reassessed in a slightly different format on all of the first year material, along with all of the second year material as part of the A level exams at the end of the two years of study.
You might find my cheesy exam guide for the AS sociology exam useful....

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Exam Papers for AS and A Level Sociology - this link just takes you to the AQA web site's assessment page - you should definitely check out the exam papers, and practice them!
Assessment Objectives in AS and A Level Sociology - It's useful to know how the marks are distributed in the exam - there are complex question by question breakdowns on the specification, but to simplify it - Knowledge and Understanding (of concepts, theories, research) is worth about 50% of the marks in the exam, the other 50% are for Application, Analysis and Evaluation.
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Residents of the UK, population changes, how we spend our money, and data on crime, relationships, health and religion. Statistics that help us build a detailed picture of how we live.

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People living in the UK, changes in the population, how we spend our money, and data on crime, relationships, health and religion. These statistics help us build a detailed picture of how we live.

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For the past ten thousand years, the parent/child balance of power has been hierarchical with the moms and dads making most decision and kids following their lead. But in the last ten, a new generation of Millennial parents have replaced the family hierarchy with a family web: one in which most parents view their child as their best friend, moms and dads have abdicated as the primary seat of power, and most decision making is democratic.

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Women do more multitasking at home while men do solo chores, study says

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Why a shortage of Mr Rights means single mothers hold the key to the falling birth rate

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Why a shortage of Mr Rights means single mothers hold the key to the falling birth rate

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irthrates are falling in the rich world and this leaves us with an unsolved puzzle. Women who want children are not having them. Why? Surveys tell us that, on average, women and men in rich countries would ideally like two children - near the coveted " population replacement rate " of 2.1 - but birthrates are falling far short of this. Women have more money and choices than ever, but are for some reason not able to have as many children as they would like. Why not?

Well, in places such as the UK, falling birthrates are frequently blamed on childcare, housing and income problems. In some respects, people in their 20s, 30s and 40s are worse off than their boomer parents. Hence fewer children.

That feels right. But compare the situation of today's young to almost any group other than their boomer parents and our theory falls apart. Millennials in the modern rich world live in far greater luxury than their child-popping contemporaries in poorer countries. Even within millennial groups in the US and Europe, it is among the middle and upper classes where birthrates are mostly falling.

This is not just about money. Since the 90s, parental incentives have soared across rich countries, yet birthrates have continued to plummet. Last week's plea from a Chinese health official for leaders to "make bold innovations" to boost the birthrate, after financial incentives failed to work, fit a global pattern.

OK: so it's about social structures, then? Lack of childcare, unequal parental leave and career penalties for mothers. Not so - or not primarily. In our fecund recent past, remember, career penalties for mothers were even higher. Mothers still suffer a career penalty almost everywhere, but attempting to remove it doesn't seem to alter their decisions that much. Since 2008, amid unequalled progress in gender equality and some of the most generous parental support schemes on the planet, birthrates in Sweden, Norway and Iceland have fallen precipitously. Nordic countries are, comparatively, parental utopias, yet birthrates tick along slightly above the EU average and still well below the replacement rate.

Since 2008, birthrates in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland have fallen precipitously: a street in Stockholm. Photograph: Fredrik Sandberg/TT/EPA

Better childcare and parental provision are, of course, worthwhile policies on their own terms: they increase human happiness but they do not change birthrates all that much.

In fact, falling birthrates track with just one metric: a rise in female empowerment itself. The right to contraception and abortion allows women not to have children they don't want and life offers them a greater range of interesting choices outside motherhood. That accounts for a lot but it doesn't explain why women with all these increased choices are having fewer children than they would like. No one has nailed down the answer. What is that?

Well, here is a suggestion. Surveys of childless women tell us that a top reason is not career, lifestyle or financially related: it's that they just haven't found the right partner. This was the second most common reason given in a representative UK study of 42-year-old childless women - right behind not wanting children. (Focusing on career was way down the list.) US studies echo this. Fertility rates within marriages have stayed fairly steady since the 1990s. Gay couples have started to add to birthrates too but the dramatic rise in childless women - and their inability to find the right partner - is driving a good deal of the rich world's birthrate fall.

Hang on, why is it that only modern women have this problem? How is this related to empowerment? Well, "just not being able to find the right man"is a fairly recent luxury for women. Their grandmothers and great-grandmothers who didn't find the right man would probably at some point simply have had to pair up with the wrong man - single life, or "spinsterhood", was just too miserable and poverty-stricken. Women spending this Valentine's Day alone should consider that in ages past they would probably have been married by now, happily or not.

Women may not in theorywant to be single and childless, but they can afford to be if the right person doesn't come along. That is how increased choice might paradoxically result in women who want children not having them.

If correct, our theory would present policymakers with a conundrum. Falling birthrates are a problem for countries that fret about shrinking workforces. But they are also being driven by something positive: greater female choice. We cannot simply suggest single women - or indeed single men, who are making many of these choices - alter their expectations when they have freely decided that they would rather pay the price for not doing so.

Immigration is only a sticking plaster for rich countries: birthrates will soon fall everywhere. But there's another more radical solution to all this. Single women may not want to pair up, but they can still have children alone. Yet single motherhood is still offputtingly tough and to some extent socially penalised. In China, single mothers have only just got the same rights as married ones. Policymakers would do well to think about how they could better support single mothers. Target them and watch birthrates rise.

Martha Gill is a political journalist and former lobby correspondent
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