mock exam 2

Question 1

4 mark hypodermic needle effect

Answer 1

what media does to its audience
daily injections of messages
influence attitudes and behaviour
propaganda potenditally way of control

Question 2

5 mark question media making life difficutl

Answer 2

teenage parents presents negatively 
norm referencing 
shape public opinion 
folk devils - cohen unmarried women/mothers 
pregnant for state benefits

Question 3

5 mark e-democracy

Answer 3

increase citizens access to political informationh
interactive environment
riots-mobilize actions and protests
communicate with mps

Question 4

essay on women in media better

Answer 4

more non steriotypical, improvements in status of women e.g the apprentice

Question 5

essay on women in media not better

Answer 5

feminists very differnect way
stereotypical roles
tv advert-iceland
pg three still used as sexual objects

Question 6

4 mark white collar crime

Answer 6

high status
tax evasion, fraud
hard to discover- problem

Question 7

5 mark ethnicity and crime

Answer 7

bias crimal justic stystem
macpherson report -institutionalised racism
steven lawrence
cohen gang culture

Question 8

5 mark status and crime

Answer 8

less chances to succeed t
turn to crime for financial gain
status through deviance-cohen and gang culture again

poverty trap - can’t socially mobilise

Question 9

where does deviance come from essay cohen

Answer 9

juvenile delinquency

group phenomenon -gange culture gain status

Question 10

where does deviance come from essay willis

Answer 10

laddish cultur e
anti school
manual labour= no qualifications needed
therefore school is pointless leads to gangs

Question 11

where does deviance come from essay marxists

Answer 11

gain status through gangs
competiton- reinforced through media
higher status- no social mobility allowed
deviance only way

Question 12

where does deviance come from essay labelling

Answer 12

deviant lable
low income broken home
cicourel said a delinquent is soemone who has been labelled as such

Question 13

2 mark status

Answer 13

position in social structure, quality of ed, job

Question 14

4 mark glass ceiling

Answer 14

barrier discrimantory 
affects women 
feminist 
cannot see it but exists 
women cannot promote to top jobs

Question 15

5 mark social exclusion

Answer 15

shut out/excluded form participation to society social economic political
cultural deprivation, cycle of deprivation (values and way of life help to keep in )

Question 16

5 mark social mobility how government helping

Answer 16

upwards in open society moving calsses thro ed,jobs

yout contract-proper lasting work places, at least 410,000 new jobs for neets 16-17yrs old

Question 17

is britain a classless society essay yes

Answer 17

class identities have weakened
meritocracy -occupations on idividual ability
traditional woking lcass communities dying out

Question 18

is britain a classless society essay no

Answer 18

no same classes but still calsses with gender and ethniticy
e.g ethnic minority gorups underachieve
marxists argue that class built inequalities
capitalism cause se ven greater calss division
life changes, still impacts daitly lives
difficult to get out , poor income housing ed health
still exists beasue hard to get out