SCLY3 Beliefs in Society June 2012 Thread

Question 1
I talked about Interpretivism believing that offical statistics were socially constructed, how churches may lie to entice new members and how religion is hard to define anominations would be more likely to last long term and hence this might be why they are not see as a deviance and also why more people take part in them, despite the fact secularisation is occurring.

Thoughts on the paper?

Hi ,I'm having a bit of an issue trying to work out UMS.
I know it doesn't really matter and I'll obviously find out in August anyway, but I'm just curious that I'm already on 252 UMS marks for the exams I've sat already, what would I need have gotten in this exam to get an A/B overall?

I panicked !! I didnt write anything on science for the 33 marker, i wrote about max weber and his idea of rationalisation which is the close to it aswell as bruce's technological view.
I talked about cultural defence/resistant identity and fundamentalism
Marxism and Functionalism- marxist view and functionalism i talked about structural differentation according to Tallcott Parsons.
Postmodernism- spiritual shopping religious market theory and exisential security.
slight bit on social changes in particular i talked about liberation theology.

Was this right ?

28 for a B, 68 for an A. B = 280 UMS, A = 320 UMS

Not sure to be honest, everyone else seems to have written about them but I didn't. Might not have needed to *fingers crossed*

28 for a B, 68 for an A. B = 280 UMS, A = 320 UMS

that's basically what i did only a very small paragraph on science, it wasnt exactly clear that you needed to though. Did you write about marxism or functionalism for 18 marker?

Ok, thanks for that But the exam was out of 60?
So would it be 48/60 for an A? not sure what it would be for B haha

aaah and i hardly used the item! i thought the 33 marker went really well too

Oh thank god but im a bit peed off because i was determined for science to come up and i was thinking ideological function and totally forgot. I did evaluate with a tiny bit of functionalism , no marxism i dont think for the 18 marker. I managed to evaluate alot because theres alot against women being equal in society. What did you put ?

Chillax, you probably did better than you thought. I know someone got a really high A last year and didn't put the Item in at all (even though it's more important this year). What did you do for 33 mark?

do u know what the grades are for this paper?

hope so! i did the ideology question and basically used stuff from the entire course(but applied it to the question) how about you?

How have you already got 252 UMS? Have you already done Crime and Deviance?

Same! I did:

Cosmopolitanism and New Age spirituality/Fundamentalism (Giddens)
Nanda - Hindu ultra-nationalism
Gramsci - religion most influential because only religion can provide organic intellectuals.
Secularisation - rationalisation/disenchantment of the world (Weber)
Criticised with Lyon
Supported rationalisation with Science - Popper and Merton
Criticised with Polyani and Kuhn
Then I did a little bit on Marxism and Feminism (because I ran out of time) and said that they've had a lot of influence in the past Communism/Feminist movement but concluded that Science was the main ideological influence today.

I sorta just wrote down everything that I could think of related to the question. Just gutted I didn't have time to do a big chunk on Marxism/Feminism.

Not necessarily, they change the conversion to UMS based on the grade boundaries set for that paper. For example, in January, I got 41/60 = 54.67 UMS but I actually got 57 UMS. They change it all the time based on how difficult the paper was.

Nope, i did it to! Couldn't work out question 3 to save my life what did you write about? I just did everything i knew about sects but i don't know whether it was right :/