SES Foundations and Revision Methods

📋 Course Outline

1. Effective Revision Sheets
2. Types of Revision Sheets
3. Three SES Disciplines
4. Models and Social Inquiry
5. Population, Samples and Percentages
6. Correlation and Causality

📖 1. Effective Revision Sheets

★ Must-know

• Creating a revision sheet mobilizes:
  • selection
  • organization
  • reformulation
  • active memorization

📌 Regular revision, spaced reactivation, and frequent short revision sessions are more effective than preparing revision sheets only on the eve of an assessment.

Further detail

• A successful revision sheet is clear, useful, and personal.

💡 Memory Hook

Select → organize → reformulate → actively memorize

📖 2. Types of Revision Sheets

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Classic revision sheet : combines a plan, key notions, and examples
• Mind map : A mind map is particularly useful for visual learners and can organize a topic through linked notions such as actors, causes, and consequences.

★ Must-know

• 🔄 The mechanism proceeds through:
  1. higher wages
  2. higher purchasing power
  3. higher consumption
  4. higher production
  5. higher demand
  6. job creation

Further detail

• Flashcards are suitable for:
  • definitions
  • authors
  • dates
  • key notions