REDO SET 1 SOCIAL STUDIES – social issues, parliamentary democracy TTO-4
This SET contains open questions, multiple-choice questions and true / false statements.
You are free to start with any part.
In brackets you find the marks you can get for each subquestion.
PART A: OPEN QUESTIONS
Question 1
Read the column below, which was published in the online newsletter Dutchnews, and
answer the first question.
Girls, girls, girls…
There have been few front page photos more depressing recently than that in
today’s Telegraaf - a production line of girls in bikinis queuing up to pose
provocatively for a photographer working on shots for the 2007 Axe deodorant
calendar.
In total, 365 girls (one for
every day of the year) lined
up for the privilege of
being a pin-up.
Hands on hips, chest out
and that’s your 24-hours
of fame - one page in a
calendar promoting
chemicals to keep teenage
boys’ armpits sweet.
They were all perfectly
nice looking girls and, the
Telegraaf tells us, the atmosphere was very jolly. After all, to be popular these days, girls
mustn’t mind exposing acres of flesh on every occasion: jeans cut so low you wonder how
they stay up, cropped tops and plunge necklines. And why wouldn’t they? Today’s music
videos could easily pass as straight porn and 12-year-old girls are quite happy to sing
along to pop songs urging boys to ‘Loosen up my buttons baby’. They even think ‘pimping’
means making your car look better. So why wouldn’t they think it was perfectly normal to
pose for a bikini calendar? And then to get on the front page of the Telegraaf as well!
It’s enough to make you force your daughter into a burqa…
Source: Dutchnews.nl, 02 October 2006
a.) In recent years, there have been lots of debates about the ‘sexualisation’ of Dutch
society. Argue, while using the four characteristics of a social issue, if sexualisation
qualifies as a social issue. (2)
b.) Which four points of view do we use to analyse any social issue? (2)
c.) Choose one point of view that suits the article above best and analyse the problem of
sexualisation from that angle. (2)
d.) A few parties in Dutch parliament want to ban promotional activities such as the photo
shoot for Axe, because it encourages the sexualisation of society. Explain to which
political ideology those parties typically belong and name two parties that can be
linked to this ideology. (2)
e.) Other political parties object to the idea of governmental interference in these kinds of
issues. Explain to which ideology those parties typically belong and name two parties
that can be linked to this ideology. (2)
P.T.O.
1
This SET contains open questions, multiple-choice questions and true / false statements.
You are free to start with any part.
In brackets you find the marks you can get for each subquestion.
PART A: OPEN QUESTIONS
Question 1
Read the column below, which was published in the online newsletter Dutchnews, and
answer the first question.
Girls, girls, girls…
There have been few front page photos more depressing recently than that in
today’s Telegraaf - a production line of girls in bikinis queuing up to pose
provocatively for a photographer working on shots for the 2007 Axe deodorant
calendar.
In total, 365 girls (one for
every day of the year) lined
up for the privilege of
being a pin-up.
Hands on hips, chest out
and that’s your 24-hours
of fame - one page in a
calendar promoting
chemicals to keep teenage
boys’ armpits sweet.
They were all perfectly
nice looking girls and, the
Telegraaf tells us, the atmosphere was very jolly. After all, to be popular these days, girls
mustn’t mind exposing acres of flesh on every occasion: jeans cut so low you wonder how
they stay up, cropped tops and plunge necklines. And why wouldn’t they? Today’s music
videos could easily pass as straight porn and 12-year-old girls are quite happy to sing
along to pop songs urging boys to ‘Loosen up my buttons baby’. They even think ‘pimping’
means making your car look better. So why wouldn’t they think it was perfectly normal to
pose for a bikini calendar? And then to get on the front page of the Telegraaf as well!
It’s enough to make you force your daughter into a burqa…
Source: Dutchnews.nl, 02 October 2006
a.) In recent years, there have been lots of debates about the ‘sexualisation’ of Dutch
society. Argue, while using the four characteristics of a social issue, if sexualisation
qualifies as a social issue. (2)
b.) Which four points of view do we use to analyse any social issue? (2)
c.) Choose one point of view that suits the article above best and analyse the problem of
sexualisation from that angle. (2)
d.) A few parties in Dutch parliament want to ban promotional activities such as the photo
shoot for Axe, because it encourages the sexualisation of society. Explain to which
political ideology those parties typically belong and name two parties that can be
linked to this ideology. (2)
e.) Other political parties object to the idea of governmental interference in these kinds of
issues. Explain to which ideology those parties typically belong and name two parties
that can be linked to this ideology. (2)
P.T.O.
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