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Every OCR Past Paper Question

Paper 1- Section A- 20 marker
2025- Outline and briefly evaluate the view that traditional ethnic identities remain important.
2024- Outline and briefly evaluate the view that traditional masculinity has declined as a type of identity.
2023- Outline and briefly evaluate the view that disability is viewed as a negative identity.
2022- Outline and briefly evaluate the view that attitudes to sexuality and sexual identity remain traditional.
2021- Outline and briefly evaluate the view that social class is no longer part of an individual’s identity.
2020- Outline and briefly evaluate the view that ethnic identities are now hybridised.
2019- Outline and briefly evaluate the view that traditional femininity is rapidly declining as a type of identity.
2018- Outline and briefly evaluate the view that age identities are rapidly changing.
2017- Outline and briefly evaluate the view that national identities are becoming less significant in a globalised world.

Paper 2- Section B- 20 marker
2024- Outline ways in which social class can influence a person’s life chances.
2023- Outline ways in which ethnic inequalities still exist in the UK today.
2022- Outline ways that a person’s age may affect their opportunities in work and employment.
2021- Outline ways in which gender can influence a person’s life chances.
2020- Outline ways in which discrimination can affect the opportunities of different social groups in work and employment.
2019- Outline ways in which a person’s life chances in the UK today may be influenced by their ethnicity.
2018- Outline ways that a person’s social class background may affect their chances of achieving a secure and well paid job.
2017- Outline ways that age is a form of social inequality in British society today.

Paper 2- Section B- 40 marker
2024- Evaluate New Right explanations of different types of social inequality.
2023- Assess the sociological view that social inequalities are functional for society.
2022- Assess the view that Marx’s theory of social class is still relevant for understanding class inequalities in the UK today.
2021- Assess Weber’s view that inequalities in society are explained by differences in class, status and party.
2020- Evaluate different sociological explanations of age inequalities.
2019- Assess the view that women in UK society today are disadvantaged due to both capitalism and patriarchy.
2018- Assess the view that ethnic inequalities are a result of the failure of immigrants to assimilate and adopt the norms and values of British Society.
2017- Assess the view that in the UK status and financial rewards are based on individuals’ talents and efforts.

Paper 3- Crime & Deviance- 40 marker
2024- Evaluate the view that the main cause of crime and deviance is labelling.
2023- Evaluate the view that the main cause of crime is poor socialisation.
2022- Evaluate the view that the law discriminates against the working class
2021- Evaluate the view that there is racism and discrimination within the criminal justice system.
2020- Evaluate sociological explanations of the over-representation of males in crime statistics.
2019- Evaluate functionalist explanations of crime and deviance.
2018- Assess subcultural explanations of crime and deviance.
2017- Assess sociological explanations for gender differences in patterns of crime.

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