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

not bad i wrote about Durkheim on suicide and linked back to the question, mechanical and organic solidarity and linked it again... then i wrote about Merton on crime and deviance then linked it back... is any of this creditworthy?

quote me on this please

Glad thats over! Love TSR for predicting globilisation, functionalism AND labelling! I reaaaaaally don't want to have to resit the paper! What topic is everyone doing next?!

mass media u?

talking about right realist was right but New right was about postmodernist too! i only wrote about postmodernist and i guessed it was right. i went to my teacher straight after and said PM is right and so is RR i found it an ok paper, MIC was quite good labelling was quite easy and globalisation was ok but i messed up the final 33 marker

1st question-->labelling theory how its usefuk
2nd question-->globalisation how it changes amount of crime and types of crime committed
3rd question-->strengths and limitation of covert observation for investigating courts proceeding
4th question-->assess contribution of functionalist and New Right theories and research to understanding society

So if I wrote about the New Right that was wrong? Help... confused.

If you wrote about the new right and functionalism you did the right thing, I'm really not the best person to answer. I still don't know exactly what the new right is?!

Thanks for that.

So if I wrote about the New Right that was wrong? Help... confused.

It would be :

Using over participant observation to study courts is that courts are open to the public. This would make the sociologists to gain easy access to courts allowing them to carry out their observation with no gatekeepers preventing their entrance to the court rooms, unless the sociologists acts againsts the rules that apply when present at court settings.

A limitation of using Overt participant observations to study courts is that although the access to cours is open to the public tehre are certain decisions such as on sentencing that are already taken by judges in closed envirioments such as chambers. This would reduce the validity of the observation on courts as there sociologists would not be able to make a accurate analysis of courts as there will be important gaps of information missing.

Another strength of using OPO to observe courts is that there is no ethical issues, this is because the courts are open settings and hence people can expect to be observed which means that the sociologists wouldn't be breaking any ethical guidlines such as of confidentiality or privacy.

However on the other hand a limination of using OPO to study courts is thats courts are complex environments where often complex concepts are being discussed in an elaborated code which the sociologists might not be familiar with. This means that using OPO to courts the researcher might be unable to fully understand what goes on during court proceeding which again reduces validity as the sociologists would be unable to analyse the data gathered as he/she hasn't fully understood it.

Thats some of the points i would include, and i think you only need about 4 or 5 well developed points to get full 15 marks.

I wrote:

Labelling - Becker, Cicourel, self-fulfilling prophecy, racism in police, and argued against it
Globalisation - Mainly wrote about it has created new crimes and more of them, then argued what feminsim, marxism said etc
Covert observation - wrote loads of strengths and weaknesses for this inc, interpretivist, positivist, validity, unreliable, tiime, cost, ethics etc
Last question - I didn't know what new right was?? ahh I wrote about Durkhiem and Parsons functionalism, durhkiems use of statistics, suicide, soc as a science. Parsons family roles - new right like this and wante tougher divorce for some reason I thought New Right was conservative? Then I wrote about how research is used to help theories i.e durkheim on suicide.

Is this right? The globalisation and the theory one really scared me