Community and Family Studies Stage 6 Syllabus
ASSESSMENT 2 NOTES
8 marker - 18 minutes
6 marker - 13.5 minutes
4 marker - 9 minutes - 350 words
3 marker - 6 minutes - 250 words
Question 1:
Power bases with groups
Power bases
● Legitimate
● Reward
● Coercive
● Referent
● Expert
Question 2:
Power within groups
Leadership
● Self-leadership
● Leadership adaptability and flexibility
Question 3:
Roles individuals adopt within groups
Factors that contribute to the role they adopt within groups
● Personal factors
- Self-esteem
- Self-confidence
- Sense of belonging
- Education
- Heredity
- Previous experience
- Culture
Question 4:
Conflict within groups
Causes of conflict
● Ineffective communication
Question 5:
Roles individuals adopt within groups
● Norms, conformity, and cohesiveness within and among groups
● Social factors
- Relationship with group members
- Attitudes of group members, eg peer acceptance
Question 6:
Power within groups
Leadership
● Leadership styles, eg autocratic, democratic, laissez faire, transformational
● Leadership adaptability and flexibility
Question 7:
Conflict within groups
Causes of conflict
● Incompatible goals
● Individual differences/personality
● Limited resources
● Ineffective communication
● Varying values
● Multiple role experience
● Analyse the impact has on groups by:
- Identifying examples of group conflict
- Recognising the causes of the conflict
- Analysing the extent of the impact on wellbeing
Question 8:
Roles individuals adopt within groups
Specific roles of individuals
● The specific roles adopted by individuals in groups
- To ensure tasks are achieved
- To maintain/build relationships
- To influence the group’s progress