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

aint going to well, just going to sit the exam with bried knowledge!!

my teacher has predicted that its either marxist, functionalist, interactionist, P.M or s.policy

i have punishment for coming up tomorrow and interactionism... sociology as a science was on our specimen so does anyone think that it wont come up?

social policy came up in the AS paper last week so hopefully we wont get it aswell!

Oh good god! Do you think it won't come up? What about Functionalism coming up, I'm least confident with that

everyone on here seems to think functionalism is going to come up! for the 33 markers im thinkig marxism as positivst methods came up last year

OOH NO. I cannot remember anything for functionalism! Haha maybe I should cram in revision for that now I would prefer sociology as a science but I can't see that coming up either! Whatever the 33 marker will be I'm screwed

i know same, we did crime and deviance right up till we broke up for christmas so we've only had three weeks to do all the theory, and we didnt do anything on methods! basically screwed lol

is michel foucault a postmodernist? my teacher said he is but i dunno how because he talks about how we r becoming prisoners and stuff :/ doesnt PM say that we pick and choose our identity? help please!!

all i know is im gonna F*ck up!!

ahh dw u'll be fine read my advice i read earlier on i feel like im gonna forget everything so im just cramming in last min revision!!

im trying to do the same, but its not getting into my head and also it is toooo long

there is no difference, functionalism is a structural theory which means that it looks at the wider structure of society and investigates how society shapes individuals behaviour.

If functionalism comes up talk about the idea of it being a structural and based on value consensus.
Talk about Parsons idea of organic analogy, the needs of soceity (AGIL), how social control is mantained allowing stability and the move from traditiona to modern societies.
As you make points go criticising them using Merton's internal critique or conflic theories critic as well as interactionists.
To conclude you could talk about teleology, i.e. the idea that functionalism explains the existance of instituitions in terms of their supoused function however logically a cause must come before its effect. Also concliude saying that functionalism is not a very useful theory to explain society as it doesnt account for conflics as if everyone shared the same culture why would there be different perspectives on society with different views?