AQA A2 Sociology Unit 4 20th June

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Reply 780

EmilyBrown

Original post by spammoclocks

I am feeling the drunkeness happening at like noon :smile:

I wish, i have psychology psy4. 9:40 tuesday morning. Fml.

Reply 781

eve1293

This revision is killing me, I don't know what's worth concentrating on.

I barely have any notes on suicide, so if it comes up I may commit myself...

Reply 782

ilickbatteries

I am confident that the 33 mark essay will be a theory, rather than methods question.

Jan 2011 - Positivism
June 2010 - Research Methods
June 2009 - Feminism
Specimen Paper - Science

Reply 783

spammoclocks

Original post by EmilyBrown

I wish, i have psychology psy4. 9:40 tuesday morning. Fml.

Boo to that :frown:

Reply 784

spammoclocks

Original post by ilickbatteries

I am confident that the 33 mark essay will be a theory, rather than methods question.

Jan 2011 - Positivism
June 2010 - Research Methods
June 2009 - Feminism
Specimen Paper - Science

Cheers I've been looking at other predictions and they are mostlikely saying social policy? what do you think??? coz i would love for that to come up

Reply 785

Bubbles0ox

Original post by ilickbatteries

I am confident that the 33 mark essay will be a theory, rather than methods question.

Jan 2011 - Positivism
June 2010 - Research Methods
June 2009 - Feminism
Specimen Paper - Science

ah same brilliant!
i hope it is then :biggrin:

Reply 786

ainm

Original post by eve1293

Straight after the exam. If I haven't killed myself in the exam

Baechler's escapist suicide or or Taylor's submissive :tongue:

(Shouldn't really joke about that kinna thing.)

Reply 787

LiamTheKook

Original post by ilickbatteries

Why don't AQA include ANY of that in their sodding book?

I feel really sorry for people who self-teach AQA A-Levels...they seem to assume people are taught things that they can ask about. Either that or the book does not fully reflect the spec

Couldn't agree more. That book barely mentions globalisation and then AQA drops in as a high mark question. Utterly ridiculous.

Reply 788

Bubbles0ox

AH i am stressing out SO much right now!
there is so much, stilll need to do most of methods :frown:

anyone have a checklist of everything we need to know?

Reply 789

ilickbatteries

Original post by spammoclocks

Cheers I've been looking at other predictions and they are mostlikely saying social policy? what do you think??? coz i would love for that to come up

Social Policy would be okay, although AQA expect 33 marks from their social policy section which is little more than an afterword. It seems as if they expect you to know more than the specification, which is a little bit awkward as it's not always general knowledge they expect you to know, but actual sociological theory which should be taught from AQAs spec...

Original post by LiamTheKook

Couldn't agree more. That book barely mentions globalisation and then AQA drops in as a high mark question. Utterly ridiculous.

I can't stand AQA!

SCLY1 (Jan 2010) had a Marxism question in the family section.

Marxism is approx 2 paragraphs in the AQA book. Fortunately, our teacher taught us from her own notes from previous teachings, because we didn't use the AQA book in the first year, but it caught a lot of people out IIRC.

Reply 790

allaboutdrama

I AM ON THE VERGE OF SUICIDE
HATE HATE HATE THE AMOUNT OF CONTENT THERE IS

I have the 'Exclusively endorsed by AQA' Nelson Thornes Sociology book and there is less than two pages on Social Policy. If they put it as a 33 marker that's absoloutely ridiculous.

I'm hoping for Structure/Agency debate!

Reply 791

eve1293

Original post by ainm

Baechler's escapist suicide or or Taylor's submissive :tongue:

(Shouldn't really joke about that kinna thing.)

ah we need a joke when trying to cram revision
Hmm, I'm not sure, perhaps submissive :tongue:

When determining whether it was suicide or not I think Atkinson's 'location and circumstance' will play a huge part...especially if they see the exam paper in front of me

Reply 792

TheSmithsIndeed

I very much doubt that globalisation will come up *touch wood*. In one of the practice papers I did, it was a 12 mark question. I think I'd be okayish if it did come up because my school made us do Global Development for the January exam.

But yeah, really hoping that the 33 marker is assessing how Marxism/functionalism has influenced sociology!

Reply 793

LiamTheKook

Original post by ilickbatteries

It'll be a fantastic feeling knowing after this exam I will (hopefully) never have to encounter them again.

Reply 794

Bubbles0ox

Original post by eve1293

ah we need a joke when trying to cram revision
Hmm, I'm not sure, perhaps submissive :tongue:

When determining whether it was suicide or not I think Atkinson's 'location and circumstance' will play a huge part...especially if they see the exam paper in front of me

okay i know nothing about suicide :frown:

do you have any notes?

Reply 795

TheSmithsIndeed

Original post by allaboutdrama

See, I didn't realise that there were different versions of AQA textbooks (as naive as it sounds). I think there should just be one so that everyone is learning exactly the same material.

Reply 796

Bubbles0ox

so the theory and methods question is always 33 marks right?

Reply 797

torilou10

Original post by Bubbles0ox

erm like how its set out

it was a 21 marker last summer i think :smile:

i have an exam tuesday then work at second job
work wed thursday and friday at first job

then saturday i can finalllyyyy enjoy mysely!

Me too - exam tomorrow (then cleaning motorhome for trip as of 2nd July - that will take a stupid amount of effort) then work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (and I get up at 5:15!) and revision for English Lang&Lit Friday - of which I've done none so far. Then I will finally be able to breathe!

Reply 798

ilickbatteries

Original post by Bubbles0ox

AH i am stressing out SO much right now!
there is so much, stilll need to do most of methods :frown:

anyone have a checklist of everything we need to know?

7.1 - Functionalism, Marxism, Feminism

7.2 - Structure, Action, Weber, Methodological Individualism, Mead, Symbolic Interactionism, Dramaturgical Analogy, Labelling Theory, Ethnomethodology, Structure vs Action.

7.3 - Premodernity, Modernity, Postmodernity, Late Modernity, Second Modernity, Post-societal sociology

7.4 - Positivism, Interpretivism, Realism, Feminist Methodology, Methodological Cosmopolitanism

7.5 - Social Policy - See the model answer plan above - it's good, but AQA will expect elements from their own book too.

7.6 - Research methods - Pretty much everything

7.7 - Sociology is a science - Pos vs Int, Kuhn and Popper, Nat-sci

7.8 - Can sociology be value free - Pos, Weber, Ints, Becker, Giddens, Gomm, Goulding

Reply 799

eve1293

Original post by Bubbles0ox

AH i am stressing out SO much right now!
there is so much, stilll need to do most of methods :frown:

anyone have a checklist of everything we need to know?

Methods in context
psychological/biological theories
statistics and crime patterns
functionalism and crime
ecological theory
subcultural theory
labelling theory
postmodernism and crime
the media and deviancy amplification
marxism
globablisation
green crime
state crime
New criminology (neo marxism)
left realism
right realism (new right)
gender and crime
ethnicity and crime
crime control, prevention and punishment
social policies on crime
suicide
sociology as a science
sociology and value freedom