Aqa sociology unit 4 crime & deviance- january 27th 2012 !!!!!!!

sorry for butting in , but my teacher said 'crime and age, realist, suicide, social control, social construction' for the crime bit...as these aint come up in the past yet

Hey
What's social construction we haven't looked at that unless it's named differently
Gotta feeling globalization might come up
Wouldn't mind it being on realism loads to write and stuff
What do you think the 33 marker will be on?

nah mate, its only two 21 mark questions (on crime + deviance) one 15 marker methods and a 33 marker

Most of us have the feeling globalisation and labelling will be in the exam...lets hope we are right lol otherwise .... for the 33 marks i think is going to be either functionalism, marxism or interactionism with functionalism having more chances.

Social construc means that society gives meaning to their actions, i.e. for example what is crime here in the uk might well not be it somewhere else. For example poligamy is a crime in here however its acceptable in asian countries so society defines what crime is or not for them. You would link this concept to labelling theory.

You've confused me even more bro. =S
You're saying its.

Crime and deviance = 21 mark Q + 21 mark Q

Theories and sociological methods = 15 mark Q + 33 mark Q

has anybody else had to learn the structure agency debate or alternate theories on methodolgy? my teacher has made us learn them but the dont seem to be on the specification...
also, does anybody know what needs to be include on a globalisation essay?

The crime and deviance section will have 2 questions, both only on crime and deviance, each worth 21 marcks, so lets say ethnicity and gender

secondly the methods in context will only have 1 question, 15 marks

and lastly there will be one qs on theory and methods part, 33 marks


in total 4 qs
hope that helps

has anybody else had to learn the structure agency debate or alternate theories on methodolgy? my teacher has made us learn them but the dont seem to be on the specification...
also, does anybody know what needs to be include on a globalisation essay?

So thats what i just said? =D Finally i understood! So there will be 90 marks?
Does anyone have any essay questions on Globalisation or Labelling? =]

I am also sitting this paper! Im so scared aha! its pretty unlikely that value free sociology is gonna come up as this as come up twice, sociology as a science has come up once and feminism has also come up once. functionalism would make my day! haha, also, with the crim questions, marxism and crime and deviance has also appeared!

good luck to you all!!!

Hiya, could you help me with functionalist theory. How would you go about that essay? can u guide me please?

You must include determinism, conflict and division which are the main criticisms of the functionalist theory but the Action theories and post-modernist approaches.

The main sociologists involved in the fuctionalism theory are: Durkheim, who talked about the rapid change from traditional society (which was based on mechanical solidarity) to modern society which has developed a more complex division of labour, then Parsons who talks about the organic analogy which is the idea that society works as a system, like the human body. Everything within society relies upon something else to work efficiently. He believed that society works today and socialk order is acheived because we all live in a shared culture with shared norms and values which is what Parsons defines as "value consensus".
Parsons also says that change is gradual and as society devlops the kinship loses these functions to factories, schools, churches etc, however this is criticised by conflict theorists as they say that functionalists assume that society is harmonious and stable.

Merton internally criticises Parsons, saying that Parsons is wrong to assume that society contiunally runs smoothly, he criticises 3 assumptions; indispensability which Merton argues is an untested assumption, functional utility and universal functionalism, as Parsons says tat everything has a positive function, however he is ignoring problems such as poverty which are functional for some groups such as the rich, but not for the poor.

Its quite straight forward, just keep in mind that functionalism are all for everybody getting along and they believe in value consensus. Marxism also are main critiques of functionalism, as they argue that shared values arent agreed by imposed on society in the interests of the dominant class (the bourgeouise)

Strengths of the theory inc: that it is a compelte theory of society that has a resonance in New Right ideas. also, include some bits about functionalism and crime etc.

for labelling a possible question could be-
Asses the view that crime and deviancce are the product of the labelling process (21)

Yeah I'd like it to be sociology as a science
Well it won't be value free as it came up in June and feminism has come up
Guess we will hve to wait and see
What do you think for crime section. ?