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Socialisation, culture and identity +
Families and relationships +
Youth subcultures +
Media +
Research methods +
Understanding social inequalities +
Globalisation and the digital social world +
Crime and deviance +
Education +
Religion, belief and faith +
Option All Families and relationships (Paper 1) Youth subcultures (Paper 1) Media (Paper 1) Crime and deviance (Paper 3) Education (Paper 3) Religion, belief and faith (Paper 3) Sort Newest first Oldest first Spec order Most marks Fewest marks Mixed topics
1 Q1
June 2025 · Paper 1
6 marks Types of culture
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2 Q2
June 2025 · Paper 1
12 marks Socialisation and its agencies
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3 Q3
June 2025 · Paper 1
20 marks Ethnic and national identities
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4 Q4
June 2025 · Paper 1 (Families and relationships)
12 marks Marriage, divorce and demographic change
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5 Q5
June 2025 · Paper 1 (Families and relationships)
16 marks Parents, children and grandparents
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6 Q6
June 2025 · Paper 1 (Families and relationships)
24 marks Theories of the family
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7 Q10
June 2025 · Paper 1 (Media)
12 marks Media effects on audiences
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8 Q11
June 2025 · Paper 1 (Media)
16 marks Media representations of social groups
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9 Q12
June 2025 · Paper 1 (Media)
24 marks Media representations of social groups Theories of media representation
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10 Q7
June 2025 · Paper 1 (Youth subcultures)
12 marks Deviant subcultures and youth deviance
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11 Q8
June 2025 · Paper 1 (Youth subcultures)
16 marks Subcultures, class, gender, ethnicity and hybridity
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12 Q9
June 2025 · Paper 1 (Youth subcultures)
24 marks Media, moral panics and folk devils Explaining youth deviance
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13 Q1
June 2025 · Paper 2
4 marks The research process
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14 Q2
June 2025 · Paper 2
6 marks The research process
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15 Q3
June 2025 · Paper 2
10 marks Unstructured and semi-structured interviews
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16 Q4
June 2025 · Paper 2
25 marks Questionnaires and structured interviews
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17 Q5
June 2025 · Paper 2
20 marks Gender inequality
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18 Q6
June 2025 · Paper 2
40 marks Weberian explanations of inequality
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19 Q1
June 2025 · Paper 3
9 marks Globalisation and digital communication
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20 Q2
June 2025 · Paper 3
10 marks Digital communication, identity, inequality and relationships
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Every topic: Culture, norms and values Types of culture Socialisation and its agencies Social control Gender and sexuality identities Ethnic and national identities Social class identity Age and disability identities Family and household diversity Marriage, divorce and demographic change Theories of the family Roles and relationships between partners Parents, children and grandparents Theories of youth culture and subcultures Subcultures, class, gender, ethnicity and hybridity Deviant subcultures and youth deviance Explaining youth deviance Media, moral panics and folk devils Media representations of social groups Theories of media representation Media effects on audiences Media, deviance amplification and moral panics Positivism and interpretivism Validity, reliability and representativeness The research process Research ethics Questionnaires and structured interviews Unstructured and semi-structured interviews Statistics, documents and content analysis Social class inequality Gender inequality Ethnic inequality Age inequality Functionalist explanations of inequality Marxist explanations of inequality Weberian explanations of inequality New Right explanations of inequality Globalisation and digital communication Theories of digital communication Digital communication, identity, inequality and relationships Digital communication and culture Defining and measuring crime Patterns of crime and victimisation Functionalist and subcultural theories Marxist and radical theories Interactionism and labelling Realist and New Right theories Feminist and gender theories of crime Reducing crime The role of education Education and work Patterns of educational achievement Explaining differential achievement Educational policy since 1988 Defining and measuring religion Religious organisations and movements Theories of religion Religion and social change Patterns of religious belief Secularisation Questions, mark schemes and examiner’s reports are © OCR, from their published past papers. Plumi isn’t affiliated with any exam board. Want whole papers? Full past papers .
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