2. The “Memory Hooks” used in this presentation have
been built up over many years. They have been
developed by teachers and students at Balby Carr
CSSC, Doncaster and are used to help students to
remember important factual information.
The memory hooks are colour coded and organised
according to the various themes. Please see next slide.
Media hooks are in the process of development
If anyone has any useful memory hooks that are not
featured here, please let us know!
3. General Memory Hooks
FAMILY
Education
Social Inequality / Poverty
Beliefs in Society
Crime and Deviance
Theories and Methods
4. To remember reasons for
changes... use FLIRTS
•F Rise of Feminism
• L Law Changes
•I Rise of Individualism
• R Decline of Religion
• T Decline of Tradition
•S Social Changes
5. To remember the social factors that
influence people’s lives... use CARGO
• C Class
• A Age
• R Race
• G Gender
• O Other factors (religion, media etc)
•
6. To remember the different social systems use
SPLECT
•S Social
•P Political
•L Legal
•E Economic
•C Cultural
•T Technological
7. To remember the different types of family
diversity use CLOGS
•C Class, Cultural
•L Life Stage
•O Organisational
•G Generational
•S Structural, Sexual OR
8. OR...CLC ROCKS!
• C Class
• L Life Stage
• C Cultural
• R Regional
• O Organisational
• C Cohort / Generational
• K Kinship
• S Structural / sexual
9. To remember the functions/roles of
the family... use CREEEPS
•C Citizenship
•R Reproduction / Regulation of Sex
•E Economic support
•E Emotional support
•E Education
•P Primary Socialisation / political
•S Stabilisation of adult personalities
10. To remember the functions of education ...
use All the Ssssss!
• S Secondary Socialisation
• S Social Solidarity / Cohesion
• S Specialist Skills / Social Mobility
• S Social Control / Order
• S Sifting and Sorting
•
11. To remember the main aims of education since
1997 use VOICE
•V Vocational Education
•O Overcoming Obstacles
•I Improving attainment
•C Choice, Competition, diversity
•E Equal opportunities
12. To remember the key areas of agreement
between New Right and Functionalists regarding
Education, use... MTVS
•M Meritocracy
•T Talents
•V Vocational Education
•S Secondary Socialisation
13. To remember the key areas of DISagreement
between New Right and Functionalists regarding
Education, use... USA
• U Universalism
• S State interference
• A Accountability
14. To remember the key areas of cultural deprivation in
relation to ethnicity and educational performance:
Whizzing Asians Fight Class In A Class
• W White working class families
• A Asian Families
• F Family structure / parental attitudes
• C Compensatory Education
• I Intellectual and Linguistic development
• A Attitudes and Values
• C Criticisms of cultural deprivation
•
15. To remember the main social issues tackled by
the Welfare State... use SQWIDI
• Sq Squalor - poor housing
•W Want - lack of money
•I Idleness - lack of work
•D Disease - ill health
•I Ignorance - lack of education
16. To remember the definitions/types of
poverty... use ARSE!
•A Absolute poverty
• R Relative poverty
• S Subjective poverty
• E Environmental poverty
17. To remember the key terms/ideas associated
with secularisation use “Darling, Shortly I’m
Going To Purposely Shop Really Drunk!”
• D Disengagement
• S Structural Differentiation
• I Individuation
• G Generalisation
• T Transformation
• P Participation
• S Secularisation of Religious Institutions
• R Religious Pluralism
• D De-sacrilisation / Disenchantment
18. To remember the MYTHS associated with
secularisation use: “Don’t Risk Biased
Understanding of Secularisation”
Disengagement is seen by some to be a myth
Re-sacrilisation is seen by some to be a myth
Believing without Belonging is seen by some
to be a myth
Secularisation as a Universal process is
generally seen to be a myth
The rise of Spirituality / a religious revival is
seen by some to be a myth
19. To remember how to compare religious
organisations use MHWRAMCI
• M My Membership
• H House Hierarchy
• W Will Worship
• R Rot Ritual
• A And Attitude to wider society
• M Might Monopoly of the truth
• C Cave Commitment
• I In Ideology (right or left wing?)
20. To remember the main ways in which
crime/deviance is ‘relative’ use PPPTTC
•P Person - WHO commits the act
•P Place - WHERE it is committed
•P Power - WHO sees it committed
•T Time - WHEN it is committed
•T Tradition - How far away from tradition
•C Culture - In which culture the act occurs
21. To remember Hirschi’s factors that propel people
away from crime use CABI
• C ommitment
• A ttachment
• B eliefs
• I nvolvement
22. To remember Box’s factors that propel people
towards crime use the ‘S’ Factors
• S - Secrecy
• S - Supply
• S - Symbolic support
• S - Social support
• S - Skill
23. To remember the key features of New Right theory and
crime/deviance use SCRUBBAS
S - Situational Theory
C - Control Theory
R - Rational Choice Theory
U - Underclass Theory
B - Broken Windows Theory
B - Biological determinism
A - Anti communitarianism
S - Socialisation (differential)
24. To remember the important features of research
methods use PROVE
•P Practicality - Is it do-able?
•R Reliability - Is it repeatable?
•O Objectivity - Is it bias free?
•V Validity - Is it TRUE?
•E Ethical concerns - have the
rules of research been observed?
25. To remember the important features of research
methods use PERVERTO
• P Practicality - Is it do-able?
• E Evidence of Studies?
• R Reliability - Is it repeatable/replicable?
• V Validity - Is it TRUE?
• E Ethical concerns - have the rules of research
been observed?
• R Representativeness - does it reflect society?
• T Theoretical Stance - positivist or anti-positivist?
• O Objectivity - Is it bias free?
26. To remember the Functional pre-requisites of
society, use AGIL
• Adaptation
• Goal Attainment
• Integration
• Latency / pattern maintenance
