Marxist
Functionalist
Intro to Education
Year 1 Sociology
Random Irrelevant Questions
100

Who wrote about correspondence theory?

Bowles and Gintis

100

Which subject is supposedly part of the National curriculum (but no one actually studied it)?

Citizenship

100

Which school was featured in the documentary we watched in the intro to Education lesson?

Bohunt

100

What exam board are we on for sociology?

Eduqas

100

Where were they intending to host the Champions League final this year (country)?

Turkey 

200

How many Prime Minister’s have been educated at Eton some 1945?

5

200

What type of standards are found in the family?

Particularistic 

200

Education is worth 16% of your A Level. What % of your A Level are the other 2 units on paper 1 worth?

16% (family) and culture (8%)

200

What structure do we use to answer a 15 mark question?

DESR

200

How many members of Parliament are there in the UK?

650

300

Which former political party leader is the son of the man who claimed meritocracy is a myth?

Ed Miliband (son of Ralph Miliband)

300

Durkheim argued that ‘school is a BLANK in BLANK’

Society in miniature

300

What are the 5 stages of school?

Nursery, Primary, Secondary, Further, Higher

300

How many sampling methods did we identify and define?

8 (4 representative, 4 non-representative)

300

How many live action Star Wars films were released before 2004?

5

400

In Willis’ study of working class boys, where was the school the study took place in located?

Midlands

400

Which 2 theorists (working together) stated that we live in a meritocratic society?

Davis and Moore

400

Can you name 4 of the school types you were asked to define?

Comprehensive or Independent or Grammar or State or Faith or Academies/Free

400

Rapoports identified how many types of diversity in the family?

5 (Postmodernism and the family)

400

The first successful vaccine was introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796. Which disease did it guard against?

Smallpox

500

Ivan Illich identified 3 roles performed by a teacher in modern schools. Can you name 2 of these?

Custodian of societies rituals or

Therapist or

Preacher

500

Functionalists identified 4 positives to Education, can you name 3 of them?

Creating social solidarity OR teaching skills necessary for work OR teaching us core values OR role allocation and meritocracy

500

Which was the only country featured in the top three for reading, maths and science on the latest PISA rankings?

Estonia

500

Who was the case study you looked at for the nature v nurture debate?

David Reimer

500

When was Netflix founded and how did it originally function?

1997 and selling and renting DVDs by mail