Sociology Unit 4 - Crime - 19th June 2012 - Notes - Disscussion and more

you need to have A at AS and have 90% at A2 (UNIT3+4)

You failed to see the point I was suggesting. Yes, it shows that people obey authority figures; but they are not always right. That was the point.

That doesn't remove from the point that it happens though does it? If they were always right, if such a thing is possible, this whole discussion would never have happened.

Yes it does, you still don't understand. Yes it happens, but it's up to the individual to question it. Only these individuals can be successful, unlike those who rely on others. It's acceptable in early stages of life, but there comes a point were independence must develop and an individual must learn to question everything and not follow like a sheep obediently.

You know that episode of Peep Show when they are locked in the flat and Jez says that if he was in France during the war he would have joined the French Resistance and then claims that he would bypass it and get a train to Berlin and take Hitler out? Yeah? That's you now.

They got told by their teacher or seemingly had authority from the AQA examiner for Sociology exams. It is not completely foolish to trust that verdict. It was a mistake on their part it wasn't a trick to separate the wheat from the chaff.

A major life-stage in someones life has been jeopardised and your reaction is to just sneer.

Sociology, english literature and media & yourself?

Oh, doubt I know you then. History, Geography, Sociology.

Yeah most probably not, do you have geography wednesday morning? as thats when i do sociology

Yup.

In my defence, I was told the exact same as the original poster. My class were told that social policy would come up and that suicide would not.

But I still revised the topic?

Therefore we are in the same situation, thus I believe I am free to comment.

Were we supposed to right about interactionist theory for the interpretivist methods question at all?

It was a very broad question - yes you could have spoken about interactionalist theory so long as you linked it to whether they would support/not support interpretivist methods. Was that the only theory you wrote about?

No i didn't write about the interactionist theory i just was worried that i should of! i wrote about interpretevist methods - focus groups, participant observation (positives and negatives) and a bit on the basis for interpretivist methods (want meanings). And then evaluated with positivist methods. So i hope that was enough. What did you write about?

same here

i word for that 33marker horrible

My timing was so bad for that exam It said we should leave 40 minutes for the last question but I left like 20 minutes and my hand was shaking. Good luck for the examiners being able to read my handwriting!!

No i didn't write about the interactionist theory i just was worried that i should of! i wrote about interpretevist methods - focus groups, participant observation (positives and negatives) and a bit on the basis for interpretivist methods (want meanings). And then evaluated with positivist methods. So i hope that was enough. What did you write about?