I didn't think it was too bad, the first four questions were alright.
Although the question about explaining the 'ideology of the nuclear family' was a bit difficult.
Also the last 20 marker about marriage being a thing of the past in contemporary UK was a little tough too.
I think i did alright in answering them though, just wrote everything i knew.

How'd you find it?

Reply 6

Zain khan

Good have you got the questions from the paper, if yeah can you please send them i want to have a look please

Reply 7

ayleeshar

Original post by kas9

I agree!! I could't think of many points against the 20 marker and I also answered it last and ran out of time so that's 15 marks gone! gotta smash this research methods and social inequalities paper now... luckily they're my strong points!!

Reply 8

kas9

Original post by ayleeshar

Luckily i've been practising a lot of question before, so timing was okay.
How do you think you did on the Explain the 'ideology of the nuclear family' question? That one, at first i didn't really understand.

Not looking forward to paper 2 though, although a lot crosses with paper 1 so i should be okay, just need to get boring research methods into my head...

Reply 9

ayleeshar

Original post by kas9

yeah the word ideology threw me so I just explained functionalist views on the family really well and threw some theories in there! I could've done a lot better I was so mad at myself when I came out I went and bought a massive bar of chocolate to cheer me up and ate it in one sitting!! I think paper 2 might be a bit nicer to us... just a feeling.

Reply 10

Zain khan

Original post by ayleeshar

Just hope social ineqiality doesnt come up.

Reply 11

ayleeshar

Original post by Zain khan

Just hope social ineqiality doesnt come up.

yeah my whole class are a bit worried about that... my advice would be to focus on marxist, functionalist and feminist views. make revision cards or posters and read them over and over!! better to be safe than sorry I guess. Good luck!! :smile:

Reply 12

kas9

Original post by ayleeshar

Yeah i did too, i just threw in functionalists and new right, and just evaluated it, hopefully it's good enough. Haha, chocolate always works...

Yeah hopefully, and theres less questions so that can be an advantage i guess..

Reply 13

ayleeshar

Original post by kas9

yeah.. more marks for them too... I think i'm going to need more chocolate!!

Reply 14

lizzyknowles

Original post by ayleeshar

yeah.. more marks for them too... I think i'm going to need more chocolate!!

Do you remember any questions from paper 2 (research methods?

Reply 15

lizzyknowles

Original post by kas9

do you remember any questions for paper 2 (research methods)

Reply 16

kas9

Original post by lizzyknowles

do you remember any questions for paper 2 (research methods)

1. Drawing conclusions from the source
2. Why sociologists build a rapport
3. Why sociologists use quantitative data
4.Using semi structured interviews and relating to the source

These are based off the answers i gave to the questions, so not entirely accurate but a general idea

Reply 17

Michiyo

That moment when I took the OCR AS Sociology exams in May 2016 and got A, but remember nothing because I hated and did not understand sociology. :redface:

I remember the post above is completely correct, though.

As for the papers in general, I found almost EVERY SINGLE QUESTION to be on gender. Like, seriously, just revise gender and you will get A on these papers. I also remember a 10-marker in the first paper being about masculinity and that there was a feral children question which dealt with what we learn in society (I think I spoke how gender is learnt and reinforced in society in that one because it was the most obvious thing).

Another question was to define 'culture'.

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Reply 18

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