sociology exam 12th January 2012

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Hirsch- said that there will be 'equal blocks' whereby there will be as many 7 year olds as there are 68 year olds. Hirsch also said there will need to be a change in social policy, for example, more skills will have to be taught to older people to keep them in employment, housing policies will have to change, such as a down grading system to make room for younger people. In addition to this, we will have to change our opinions according to Hirsch, especially about source distribution as age is defined as a socially constructed time of life.

Mckeowen said that nutrition helped death rates to decrease, as it improved resistance

Townshed stated that ageism, the negative stereotyping of someone due to age, is because of state policies, such as the retirement process. Townshed believed that because of retirement, old people are literally 'forced' in to poverty, and to live off benefits

I found this all out using the Rob Webb sociology revision guide. It has a orange cover. Definitely gonna buy myself a copy instead of robbing my teachers copy! haha. It's a great book.

YOU ARE SO HELPFUL! THANK YOU FOR REPLYING ASAP!
One more thing, when you are writing an answer can you swear as in when you like refering to Ansley "takers of ****" do you actually write the word '****'?

With regards to childhood what does cross cultural differences mean?

I've done post-modernism and modernism. Not really much to cover there though from what my class was taught.

Ahh, so there are more people
Well, from how much time we spent on it, I'd say its not that for off for an essay question, there's alot of views you can cover about family structures and who believes what.

Oh yeah I guess so, I do have a whole A3 page dedicated to just that so it might be worth going over

My teachers an examiner she said at least 4 but i tend to use 5 or 6 just to be on the safe side .
Just remember to evaluate, after every point .

So do we need to know about postmodernism and modernism? :/

It is me or does anyone feel that in Sociology a lot of the information you can 'bull-****'?

Kind of hoping for a 24 mark question on social policy as that seems pretty easy to me.
Nearly completed all revision now, only 1 booklet left to complete! Then onto politics... which is Friday. Oops.

To be honest, most of this unit is common sense. If your mind cannot generate a reasonable handful of reasons for changes in demographics, you don't deserve any kind of qualification.

I'd really like an essay on function of the family, and I would hate childbearing or lone-parent families.
My socio teachers seem to think family diversity or social policies are possibilities because they haven't come up before, but neither has Marxism.

Good luck, everyone.

I've revised everything, but I'm rusty on marriage/cohabitation/lone parenthood/etc. I've got a socio lesson tomorrow so hopefully I can cover it all.

EDIT: I've got Gov&Pol on the friday as well. A bit less confident on that one, I think.

A question on the assesment of marxism recently came up