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Sociology exam - May 18th AFTERMATH!

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Sociology exam - Families and Households May 18th aftermath

How did everyone do?

I didn't finish the paper :frown:

but think I have done well. It depends on the results though...

(edited 12 years ago)

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Reply 1

ojridge1

Did alright I think, ****ed up the last question though. Only wrote about conjugal roles and domestic labour =/

Reply 2

geeklad

Just for reference:

06 - Social construction of Childhood [2]

07 - 2 government policies or laws that affect childhood (exlucding compulsory education and labour restrictions) [4]

08 - 3 reasons for decrease in birth rates since 1900 [6]

09 - Changes in divorce rates [24]

10 - Feminist views on roles of family and relationship [24]

Reply 3

Jessca

That exam was beautiful.

Reply 4

Shippy

I think i've gotten full marks on the 12 mark section, the divorce rate Q was a piece of piss IMO, and struggled then with feminism Q :frown:

couldn't remember any names so just gave general marxist/radical/ liberal feminist views and then wrote some criticisms... Hopefully if i've got a high mark in my first essay, it shouldn't be too damaging to my grade!

EDIT: forgot to mention patriarchy in the feminism essay aswell! Of all things to forget to put in! Managed to slip it into my conclusion that i rushed in the last 2 minutes :/

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Reply 5

Jessca

Original post by Shippy

I think i've gotten full marks on the 12 mark section, the divorce rate Q was a piece of piss IMO, and struggled then with feminism Q :frown:

What did you put for policies? that really had me stumped.

Reply 6

Shippy

Original post by Jessca

What did you put for policies? that really had me stumped.

Errrrrrm, i know for one i put about age restrictions because it did say policies AND laws.
I'm trying to think what I put for the other, but I can't remember now! :frown:

What did you put?

Edit: which question do you mean btw? I assumed you meant the 4 marker? :s-smilie:

Reply 7

Peterpop

Original post by geeklad

10) this would be quite easy eg talk about roles in the household then go on to talk about repressiveness of the ideologically constructed family and the socialisation of men and women eg expressive and instrumental roles. also how marriage is a prison for women. include names such as ann oakley. talk about the dual role and the double and tripple shift. also talk about feminisation of society and the new man also welfare state supporting females. yuo could also include the changing attitudes of women and how they are more career focused and less stigmatised to marry young.
perhaps all of this will put your minds to rest over wether or not you did well on the last question.

Reply 8

Jessca

Original post by Shippy

Errrrrrm, i know for one i put about age restrictions because it did say policies AND laws.
I'm trying to think what I put for the other, but I can't remember now! :frown:

What did you put?

Edit: which question do you mean btw? I assumed you meant the 4 marker? :s-smilie:

I mentioned how they weren't allowed things like alcohol and said how they have restricted TV viewing before certain time so they are protected :/ I not sure if its good but it was only a mini-question!

Reply 9

Shippy

Original post by Jessca

I think you'll get the marks for that tbh :smile:

I'm really struggling to remember what I put for my second one now :/ oh well! Like you say, it's only a mini question!

Reply 10

Jessca

Original post by Shippy

I think you'll get the marks for that tbh :smile:

I'm really struggling to remember what I put for my second one now :/ oh well! Like you say, it's only a mini question!

thank god for that haha I found that the hardest tbh! even if its only 2 marks I know the essays went very well :smile:

lovely lovely questions...!

Reply 11

geeklad

for the feminist question;

Radical Feminist: Shulamith Firestone - "family is tool of male dominance"

Marxist feminist: Ainsley - "women are takers of ****"

Liberal Feminist: Ann Oakley - disagrees with the "March of Progress" idea proposed by Wilmott and Young

Reply 12

Jessca

Somerville goes against the radical feminist idea of 'seperatism' too.

Reply 13

Shippy

Original post by Jessca

thank god for that haha I found that the hardest tbh! even if its only 2 marks I know the essays went very well :smile:

lovely lovely questions...!

Nearly died of happiness when i saw the divorce question! I'm hoping I got nearly full marks on it, fingers crossed! Didn't enjoy the second essay, i completely blanked on actually feminist names, but managed to get the different views in and criticised feminism overall, so hopefully that'll get me enough marks. As long as I get a B, i'm happy!

Reply 14

Shippy

I'm a bit annoyed at my teacher tbh, she didn't go over any of the fews with us in proper detail, most of the views I had to learn while revising the past few days :/ done the best with what i had though and it could have been much worse!

Reply 15

Jessca

Original post by Shippy

Ahh when I saw divorce I almost cried 'cause I had done it 10 minutes earlier with my teacher. I had anticipated feminsm to come up as they never really have before, so happy!

Reply 16

Shippy

Original post by Jessca

Ahh when I saw divorce I almost cried 'cause I had done it 10 minutes earlier with my teacher. I had anticipated feminsm to come up as they never really have before, so happy!

Hahaha that's lucky! Our teacher hadn;'t been through any past papers with us and because I've been so busy with other exams I just hadn't bothered to check :/ Oh well, theres always a resit but I really don't think I'll have done worse than a C! Good luck to you on results day though! :smile:

Reply 17

Kyuu

Ffs, I got Ann and Ainsley mixed up ¬.¬
Oh well, divorce question was pretty simple but Feminist was probably the harder question >.< hopefully I've did enough for an A.

Reply 18

Plonk

Seeing those questions, I wish I had done the retake of this exam. Far better questions than were on the January 2011 paper. Hope all of you did well all the same though :smile:

Reply 19

zedjay010

want to kiss whoever invented that paper, was top! even though i put down ainsely was a radical feminist, and zaretsky a marxist feminist (is that right, is zaretsky a marx fem? :s-smilie:

) it went well. what did you all put down for the second one about policies changing children's experiences?
i put the introduction of the divorce reform act = more l.p.f's and fatherless families for children, introduction of policies regarding domestic abuse which is a positive as the social can get involved blah blah, and i seem to have forgotten what i put as the other one :s-smilie: