- Gender is not the strongest predictor of attainment:
- social class attainment gap at Key Stage 4 (as measured by percentage point difference in attainment between those eligible and not eligible for free school meals) is three times as wide as the gender gap
- some minority ethnic groups attain significantly below the national average and their under-achievement is much greater than the gap between boys and girls
- Churches such as the Church of England or the Roman Catholic Church, are world-accommodating, meaning that they are also linked to society’s major institutions, and have a hierarchy of paid officials
- As a church aims to be the spiritual home of everyone in society, their membership is open to all and is easily obtained
- However they tend to attract the middle-classes due to their conservative beliefs
- People qualify for membership simply by being born into that society
- Their worship tends to be restrained and based on traditional ritual, rather than spontaneous
- They claim to have the monopoly of truth.
- Views the audience as passive, unthinking recipients of media texts who are unable to prevent media messages from being injected into audiences’ minds
- The model is used by Marxists to explain the ideological power of media owners
- This view argues audiences watch a violent film and then go and then go out and commit violence
- Dworkin (1981), suggests men viewing pornography are more likely to abuse women
- The principles behind the hypodermic syringe model is seen to drive moral panics over media effects such as Twitter ‘tweets’ fuelling the abuse of female politicians
Problems (evaluative points) with hypodermic syringe model
- There’s little evidence which indicates media content has an immediate effect on audiences (see methodological problems of research media effects)
- It assumes there’s a homogeneous rather than plurality of responses to media content
- It ignores the diversity/pulrality of media audiences (age, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, gender, social class and educational background)
This page provides a sample of links to numerous pages highlighting the success of women which are often airbrushed from history.
http://www.livescience.com/31380-unsung-women-explorers.html
http://time.com/tag/unsung-women/
http://listverse.com/2013/10/14/10-groundbreaking-women-scientists-written-off-by-history/
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The clip below runs through the basic principles of positivist methodology.
These methodological principles provide the justification for using positivist research methods in order to collect quantitative data.
Most social surveys are conducted via postal questionnaires because:
Advantages of postal questionnaires:
- Tend to be cheap
- Can use larger samples
- Have a quick turnaround period
- Can be closed questions which are user-friendly
- Easily quantified
Disadvantages of postal questionnaires:
- Can be costly in regard to stamp prices
- Need return envelops
- Respondent needs incentive to return questionnaire
- Low response rate
- May not be representative
- Cannot control who completed questionnaire
The clips below use the spoof character of Ali G as a vehicle for discussions about the social dynamics which will aid your understanding regarding the rise of feminism (plus you might like a chuckle). Satire has often been used to ridicule society’s contradictions and prejudices.
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