2. Understanding Standards: Nominee Training Event
Sociology
National 5 and Higher

3. 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

4. Hierarchical National 5 and Higher
Culture and Identity
Human Society
Social Issues

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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.

11. Key changes to the CAS: Human Society
Perspectives: structural; action
Theories must include: Consensus, Conflict, Functionalism, Marxism, Feminism, Symbolic interactionism, Labelling, Weberism.

12. 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

13. 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

14. Higher: Culture and Identity National 5: Culture and Identity
1.1 Explaining the impact of socialisation on the formation of identity
1.1 Describing the concepts of 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 o

15. Culture and Identity Key study
Higher
Cohen (1972)
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
National 5 No mandatory studies

16. 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

17. National 5: Human Society
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

18. National 5: Human Society
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 a research method to a research scenario
2.3 Describing two differences between structure and action perspectives

19. 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

20. National 5: Social Issues
Higher: Social Issues
National 5: Social Issues
1.1 Selecting and describing a contemporary social issue, with reference to different sources of information
1.1 Describing a contemporary social issue with reference to evidence from different sources
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 of the social issue offered by the theories
1.3 Describing one similarity and two differences in how the theories explain the chosen social issue

21. National 5: Social Issues
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

22. Social Issues – key studies
Higher
1. Goldthorpe (1972) (2008) Oxford Mobility Studies 
2. Blanden J Machin M (2008) Up and down the Income Ladder in Britain: Past Changes and Future Prospects 
National 5
1. Rosenthal, R., & Jacobson, L Pygmalion in the classroom. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
2. Kingdon G and Cassen R, Understanding low achievement in English schools. London School of Economics

23. 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