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Understanding Standards:
Nominee Training Event
Sociology
National 5 and Higher
Aims of the day
To support Nominees in their understanding of national
standards by:
 Discussing changes to assessment standards and the
course assessment specification (CAS) after the course
review
 Discussing with colleagues what evidence is required to
meet assessment standards
 Asking questions and seeking clarification about national
standards
Hierarchical National 5 and Higher
National 5
Higher
Culture and Identity
Culture and Identity
Human Society
Human Society
Social Issues
Social Issues
The purpose of
Unit Assessment Support Packages
UASPs can be used to:
• Assess your candidates
• Adapt for your own assessment programmes
• Help you develop your own assessments
Sociology UASPs
Package 1
 Unit by Unit approach – National 5 and Higher
Package 2
 Portfolio – National 5 and Higher
Package 3
 Combined across Units – National 5 and Higher
UASPs – key features
 Designed to encourage professional judgement
 Provide broad-based tasks – allow assessors to
choose appropriate context and forms of evidence
 Show range of approaches to generating assessment
evidence
 Give information on the type of evidence which could
be gathered and how this is to be judged against
assessment standards
Evidence Requirements
 Assessors should use their professional judgement,
subject knowledge and experience, and
understanding of their learners, to determine the most
appropriate ways to generate evidence and the
conditions and contexts in which they are used.
 Evidence should be gathered in combination with
other Outcomes where possible, either from this Unit
or in combination with the Outcomes from the other
two Units. Evidence may also be gathered for
individual Outcomes where appropriate.
Key changes to
Higher assessment standards
 No changes to National 5
 1.5 Culture and Identity has been changed from:
Giving a summarised sociological analysis of an investigation of culture
and identity in a changing social world
to: Drawing conclusions about culture and identity in a changing social
world
 2.2 Human Society changed from:
Applying structural and action perspectives and theories to explain
relationships amongst individuals, groups and institutions
to: Analyse similarities and differences between sociological theories
Key changes to the CAS:
Culture and Identity
Theories for each Higher unit are now specified in
the CAS
Perspectives: structural; action
Theories must include: Consensus, Conflict,
Functionalism, Marxism, Feminism, Symbolic
interactionism, Labelling, Weberism.
Key changes to the CAS:
Human Society
Perspectives: structural; action
Theories must include: Consensus, Conflict,
Functionalism, Marxism, Feminism, Symbolic
interactionism, Labelling, Weberism.
Key changes to the CAS:
Social Issues
 Perspectives: structural; action
 Theories must include: Consensus, Conflict,
Functionalism, Marxism, Feminism, Symbolic
interactionism, Labelling, Weberism.
 Social mobility is now mandatory
Workshop 1: Culture and Identity
Read the candidate evidence for Culture and
identity
Decide whether it meets national standards
We will then discuss your thoughts on the
evidence
Higher: Culture and Identity
o
National 5: Culture and
Identity
1.1 Explaining the impact of socialisation 1.1 Describing the concepts of
on the formation of identity
culture, subculture, identity and
diversity
1.2 Explaining the concepts of culture
and sub-culture in terms of power and
status
1.2 Explaining the process of
socialisation
1.3 Applying sociological theory to
explain a selected aspect of culture and
identity
1.3 Using evidence from a range of
sources to investigate the
relationship between socialisation
and identity
1.4 Explaining sociological research for
the selected aspect of culture and
identity
1.4 Giving an explanation of culture
and identity that reflects
awareness of diversity
1.5 Drawing conclusions about culture
and identity in a changing social world
Culture and Identity Key study
Higher
National 5
Cohen (1972)
Folk Devils and
Moral Panics
No mandatory
studies
Workshop 2: Human Society
Read the candidate evidence for Human
Society
Decide whether it meets national standards
We will then discuss your thoughts on the
evidence
Higher: Human Society
National 5: Human Society
1.1 Explaining what is meant by
common-sense and sociological
approaches to the study of
human societies, giving
examples of each
1.1 Distinguishing between common-sense
and sociological explanations of social
behaviour
1.2 Evaluating one research
method that tends to generate
quantitative data
1.2 Describing basic features and one
advantage and one disadvantage of two
different research methods that tend to
generate quantitative data.
1.3 Evaluating one research
method that tends to generate
qualitative data
1.3 Describing basic features and one
advantage and one disadvantage of two
different research methods that tend to
generate qualitative data.
1.4 Selecting research methods favoured by
sociologists that adopt structural and action
perspectives
Higher: Human Society
National 5: Human Society
2.1 Explaining features, strengths
and weaknesses of structural and
action perspectives
2.1 Explaining the structural
perspective, using the concept of
structure
2.2 Analyse similarities and
differences between sociological
theories
2.2 Explaining the action
perspective, using the concept of
social action
2.3 Applying and justifying choice of 2.3 Describing two differences
a research method to a research
between structure and action
scenario
perspectives
Workshop 3: Social Issues
Read the candidate evidence for Social Issues
Decide whether it meets national standards
We will then discuss your thoughts on the
evidence
Higher: Social Issues
National 5: Social
Issues
1.1 Selecting and describing a
1.1 Describing a contemporary
contemporary social issue, with social issue with reference to
reference to different sources of evidence from different sources
information
1.2 Applying two contrasting
sociological theories to explain
the social issue
1.2 Explaining the social issue
using sociological theories, one
of which takes a structural
perspective
1.3 Evaluating the explanations 1.3 Describing one similarity
of the social issue offered by the and two differences in how the
theories
theories explain the chosen
social issue
Higher: Social Issues
National 5: Social
Issues
2.1 Sourcing and describing
sociological studies of an
identified social issue
2.1 Explaining the role of
research evidence in sociology
2.2 Evaluating the studies
based on practical, ethical and
theoretical issues relevant to the
research process
2.2 Interpreting research
evidence and using the
interpretation to support
sociological explanations of a
contemporary social issue
2.3 Draw conclusions from the
research findings
Social Issues – key studies
Higher
National 5
1. Goldthorpe (1972)
(2008) Oxford Mobility
Studies
1. Rosenthal, R., & Jacobson,
L. 1968. Pygmalion in the
classroom. New York: Holt,
Rinehart & Winston
2. Blanden J Machin M
(2008) Up and down the
Income Ladder in Britain:
Past Changes and Future
Prospects
2. Kingdon G and Cassen R,
2007. Understanding low
achievement in English
schools. London School of
Economics
Did we achieve our aims?
To support Nominees in their understanding of national
standards by:
 Discussing changes to assessment standards and the
course assessment specification (CAS) after the course
review
 Discussing with colleagues what evidence is required to
meet Assessment Standards
 Asking questions and seeking clarification about national
standards
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