AQA sociology unit 1

Pinkaddiction23

I thought the question was how is childhood sometimes an unpleasant experience.
I said - child can be abused
- child can lose one parent
- in industrial society, children were expected to work

I don't know if it was right or not though :p:

Does anyone know if I will get penalised for not doing the death rate question as an essay. I ran out of time so I done detailed bullet points :frown:

No, my sociology teacher bullet pointed when she ran out of time in her A2 and got an A. Sometimes u can get higher marks if u have poor essay structure, cos they wouldnt mark u down for it. Unless u made loads of spelling mistakes.

Reply 21

charly277

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JLogan1992

I did family, I thought it was all good apart from the death rate question.

For the functions, I only mentioned Functionalist views, Parsons, Murdock, and Fletcher though.

I only came up with two things for the negative impact one, then ran out of time.

If you only mentioned functionalists you can only get 10 marks, because you need to criticise, like postmodernists and feminists would criticise, thats where you get the 14 AO2 marks from.

Reply 22

charly277

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Jollly

^ Haha on the paper I couldn't remember who was the person who spoke about the ageing population, hope it won't make a huge difference :/
Yeah I did infant mortality rare decreasing as well.

I didn't know who said it either i just wrote about its affects :/

Reply 23

Pinkaddiction23

charly277

No, my sociology teacher bullet pointed when she ran out of time in her A2 and got an A. Sometimes u can get higher marks if u have poor essay structure, cos they wouldnt mark u down for it. Unless u made loads of spelling mistakes.

if they can actually read it. I was in kind of a rush :p:

but thanks for the info!

Reply 24

laurajones24

bmehta123

Butt i got slightly stuck on the 6 mark question about how childhood isnt positive for all children or whatever

-child labour in some parts of world
-child abuse and violence
-some disadvantaged by social class i.e material and cultural deprivation can lead to ill health fewer life chances and underachievement in school
-could also include 'toxic' childhood
-and how children are no longer protected from truths of adulthood e.g. death

Reply 25

laurajones24

charly277

If you only mentioned functionalists you can only get 10 marks, because you need to criticise, like postmodernists and feminists would criticise, thats where you get the 14 AO2 marks from.

..also include the item or you wont be able to get full marks

Reply 26

JLogan1992

charly277

If you only mentioned functionalists you can only get 10 marks, because you need to criticise, like postmodernists and feminists would criticise, thats where you get the 14 AO2 marks from.