AQA A2 Sociology Unit 4 20th June

I'm doing stratification! Im guessing mobility!

This is the third time ive posted this now....

Social policies are laws that are created due to sociological research.

Giddens said that there are four main purposes of sociological research:

1) to understand the world
2) To show us the needs of people
3) to show what policies work and which ones dont
4) To increase our knowledge of ourselves + others

Some policies can be local some can be country wide.

The beveridge report was created in the 1940s to fix the "five social evils" want, diesease ignorance, squalor and idelness - The government created the welfare state because of these "social evils" one of the first social policies made.

Feminist social policies - LIke equal pay act + abortion are due to sociological research.

Marxists say that sociological studies are linked with capitalism so really social policies just promote capitalism and help the bourgeoisie - the rich are kept in power. Research is also funded by the government so it is corrupt and biased and is mainly used to discover whether capitalism works, politicans wont change social structure (like changing to communism) as they only care about maintaing the status quo. They say because of this social policies will never change society.

Radical feminists say social policies are useless because women's research will never be listened too as society is patriachal - women will never gain power and are kept down because people in power are men. Firestone said that partiachy needs to end to save lives.

Liberal feminists however say that social policies have changed society as they are paid equally and are supported by men because of sociological research.

Bauman a postmodernist said that socioogists need to make their studies known to policy makers because society is getting worse as they ignore the researchers.

Thats pretty much it.

How many UMS do you need to get the grade you need for uni?

Don't you have like 240 UMS marks so far? You'd need like 80 UMS for an A, thats only 47 marks.

In fact, having worked it out, if someone needed 120/120 for an A*, they could quite comfortably get 120/120 by getting 25/33 on C&D, 25/33 on T&M and 17/24 on MIC.

is anyone else in my shoes and not been taught social policy??

Yeah, I need 76/120 UMS which works out around that, but at the moment that is looking doubtful - especially if full UMS students only need 65 or 70/120, and I haven't even revised all of it

My ideal paper would be Labelling Theories for 12marker, Suicide for 21 marker, Unstructured Interviews for Victims, Questionnaires for Police and Functionalism for the theory question <3 <3 <3 <3

In my dreams!

Has anyone got any studies that I can use for the Link with Crime and Deviance and Theory Methods please

i am so worried about this.

Yeah, I need 76/120 UMS which works out around that, but at the moment that is looking doubtful - especially if full UMS students only need 65 or 70/120, and I haven't even revised all of it

My ideal paper would be Labelling Theories for 12marker, Suicide for 21 marker, Unstructured Interviews for Victims, Questionnaires for Police and Functionalism for the theory question <3 <3 <3 <3

In my dreams!

What do i actually need for an A?

Got 164 UMS points at AS, and 78 UMS points from my religion paper!

Has anyone got any studies that I can use for the Link with Crime and Deviance and Theory Methods please

I have a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiig feeling that "punishment" may come up for crime and deviance.
My teacher nearly forgot to tell us it all together, but i feel that i WONT be a 21mark essay question as there just isn't enough (in my opinion) to do 12marks worth of evaluation.

Maybe it will be a "name 3 strengths of *certain* punishment to decrease crime"
Or something like that

My teacher told me that at a conference for examiners/teachers for the sociology spec a few years ago that suicide would never be an essay question because its far too 'hard' - a lot of students apparently don't pick out the underlying question with suicide. On the surface it's just Durkheim, Baechler, Atkinson, Douglas and Taylor, contrasting and comparing them, and picking out evaluations, but apparently underneath that it's actually a question where you're supposed to discuss the differences in their theoretical perspectives, so positivist/realist for Durkheim, interpretivist for Douglas, phenomenological for Atkinson...dunno what Taylor and Baechler are. I think Baechler might be an interpretivist too.

However, things may have changed so don't take that as gospel.

I'd like

C&D

12 - The role of prisons

21 - Feminist

MIC - Anything, I don't mind

T&M

Consensus vs Conflict please

What 3 strengths would you use for using incapacitation punishment methods in crime?

I dont actually know, thats the problem. I have NO notes on punishment, just like ONE SLIDE on powerpoint about it