Name: Higher Modern Studies: Social Issues in the UK By David Sheerin
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Higher Modern Studies: Social Issues in the UK by David Sheerin

Exam Board: SQA
Level: Higher
Subject: Modern Studies
First Teaching: September 2014
First Exam: June 2015

Written specifically to match the Higher for CfE syllabus offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority for examination from 2015 onwards, Social Issues in the UK covers the two issues that students have the opportunity to study in this unit of the course: Social Inequality and Crime and the Law.

* Questions to help monitor progress throughout the topics
* Case studies and fact files to focus attention on specific areas
* Assessment guidance to prepare students for the final exam

About David Sheerin

Frank Cooney (also Series Editor) is a former PT Modern Studies. Gary Hughes is Teacher of Modern Studies at St Ninian's High School in Kirkintilloch. David Sheerin is Principal Teacher of Modern Studies at St Ninian's High School in Kirkintilloch.

Section 1: Social inequality in the UK
Chapter 1: Evidence and causes of social inequality
1.1: Poverty
1.2: Social exclusion
1.3: Social class
1.4: Social inequality
1.5: Poverty and social class in the age of austerity
Chapter 2: The impact of social inequality
2.1: The elderly
2.2: Child poverty
2.3: `Working poor' families
2.4: Unemployed young adults
Chapter 3: Government responses to social inequality
3.1: The Welfare State
3.2: Government action on wealth inequalities
3.3: The Welfare Revolution
3.4: Benefits: universal or means-tested?
Chapter 4: Social inequality and health
4.1: Geographic inequalities
4.2: Official reports on health inequalities
4.3: Lifestyle issues
4.4: The `biology of poverty'
4.5: Gender inequalities
4.6: Ethnicity and health
4.7: Government responses to health inequalities
4.8: The role of the private sector within the NHS
4.9: Improved health
Chapter 5: Social inequality: gender and ethnicity
5.1: Women in a changing society
5.2: Ethnic minorities
5.3: Attempts to tackle inequalities
Section 2: Crime and the law in the UK
Chapter 6: The Scottish criminal justice system
6.1: Overview of the judicial system
6.2: The court system in Scotland
6.3: Other issues in the Scottish judicial system
Chapter 7: Theories and causes of crime
7.1: Sociological explanations
7.2: Biological explanations
7.3: Other reasons
Chapter 8: Impact of crime on society
8.1: Personal impact
8.2: Impact on the offender
8.3: Impact on the community
8.4: Economic impact
8.5: Political impact
Chapter 9: Efforts to tackle crime
9.1: The role of the police
9.2: Methods of policing
9.3: Issues within the police
Chapter 10: The penal system
10.1: Purpose
10.2: Overcrowding in prisons
10.3: The Scottish prison population
10.4: The politics of prisons
10.5: Female prisoners
10.6: Alternatives to prison
10.7: Youth offenders
Section 3: Assessment
Chapter 11: Assessment
11.1: The question paper
11.2: The assignment
11.3: Research methods
11.4: Qualitative and quantitative research

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Sku

GOR007550205

ISBN 13

9781471835841

ISBN 10

1471835847

Title

Higher Modern Studies: Social Issues in the UK by David Sheerin

Author

David Sheerin

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Hodder Education

Year published

20141031

Number of pages

168

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Higher Modern Studies: Social Issues in the UK David Sheerin

Higher Modern Studies: Social Issues in the UK by David Sheerin

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Higher Modern Studies: Social Issues in the UK by David Sheerin

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