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

If social policy were to come up, what would you write about?
I understand it, but im not sure what i would include to gain 33 marks.

Thank you in advance to any answers given

Panicking

Original post by rural_boy

My god is it me or is there just far too much to revise for this topic! It's my last exam and I'm feeling so unmotivated to carry on revising!

thisss, I just dont think I'm gonna be able to cover everything D:

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RMW1994

Original post by TitchTheAntiHero

I do too, micro sociology is all too similar,

I hate this exam :frown:

Lol,i hate this exam too!

Original post by 05whitejay

If social policy were to come up, what would you write about?
I understand it, but im not sure what i would include to gain 33 marks.

Thank you in advance to any answers given

Well its likely to be a question like 'assess the different views of the relationship between sociology and social policy' so you would wanna like define social policy and then distinguish the difference between social problem and a sociological problem , and why government would choose to use research conducted by sociologists and the factors that affect this choice,and then like just use the different views to criticise eachother on whether sociologists should have the role of helping with social policy.
So like functionalists and the social democratic are like yeah defo should have an impact, marxists say that social policy just serves the capitalist governments needs and that the sociologist should therefore reveal this exploitation and how the government use social policy to hide it,feminists say that yeah liberal and radical feminists have had an impact on policies but the state is too patriarchal and therefore wont deliver, and then the new right say that the welfare state creates the underclass and leads to greater social problems and that sociologists should only propose policies that promote individual responsibility and choice. Post-modernism say that society is too complex and therefore all knowledge is uncertain and that sociologists can only be interpreters and not legislators.

^^ hope that helps,its soo brief but thats like the basic gist/outline of what a 33marker could be and what to discuss..xx

btw if i'm completely wrong then please correct me! x

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codle

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Original post by Hooby

Panicking

Read this as "picnicking" when I first saw it... Whoops!
Although, I'd rather have a picnic than revise this! I only know the basic stuff, nothing fancy to show off and impress the examiner with :P

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supercalifragilist

Guys, heres some resources I came across to reinforce the functionalist/right realists idea that any other family other than the nuclear family is an inadequate socialiser, thus leading to children becoming criminals.

Donohue and Levitt's hypothesis on legalisation of abortions and dip in crime rate:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_effect
In short: America legalised abortions from the 1970's, many women fell pregnant outside of marriage or a one night stand (Likely lone parent families). So they had this free choice to abort their unborn children, 20 years later, when this lost generation would have been at the good old ripe age of criminality in the 1990's the crime rate just suddenly dipped. Therefore, this missing generation of children never existed because the mother decided to abort them. So this proves that if they were born to inadequate lone parent families with an inadequate socialiser, the children would have become the next generation of criminals.

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Unientry2012

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Original post by Blaze008

haha havent you? in my world chickens are Holy! i love kfc! and nandos! thus i came up with holy chicken! havent u had chicken and thought to urself holy chicken this chicken is goooooood! loool i dono wat im saying.
hahaha yo i used to do that aswell! i used to make my notes a rap song. makess it so easy to remember! and for those sociologists like durkheim i think of them as real people. so like my mums durkheim. and watever i learn about him' i put as her personality! lol that doesn make sense but anyway iv typed it and cba to erase it. ur probable thinking im a retard right about NoW! haha anyway thanks for the encouragement! im sure ul get another 120/120 ! x

Sorry to be a beg
But I'm just running through the posts and this made me LOOOOOOOOL

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tfdes

Original post by TB.93

What the HELL is action theory?!

Well, action theories is basically 'micro' sociology. This would include everything from Weber (Social action), Symbollic interaction, Goffman's Dramaturgical analogy, Becker's Labelling model and Ethnomethodology. It is quite a lot to remember, but you don't have to include everything in a question on Action theories, so it should be pretty simple :smile:

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laureneb10

likelyhood of women and crime coming up??

Reply 589

TB.93

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Original post by tfdes

Well, action theories is basically 'micro' sociology. This would include everything from Weber (Social action), Symbollic interaction, Goffman's Dramaturgical analogy, Becker's Labelling model and Ethnomethodology. It is quite a lot to remember, but you don't have to include everything in a question on Action theories, so it should be pretty simple :smile:

I am oficially giving up on this exam. I have never ever heard of that in my life.

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tfdes

Original post by TB.93

I am oficially giving up on this exam. I have never ever heard of that in my life.

Well it's not as hard as it sounds. This section is about theory relating to every topic you have studied, so relate everything you know about Weber, Becker and any other Social action theorist you know of (or Interpretivist) in Crime, Religion, Family..whatever.. and you'll be fine
Good Luck :smile:

Reply 591

Naf*

Hi does anybody have any predictions for crime and deviance and theory and methods

Reply 592

Naf*

Does anybody have the questions for the jan 2012 paper .... Or a link for crime and Devine and theory and methods paper

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helpmekid

OP

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What the heck is : Ethnomethodology!!!!??? Can someone give a quick overview!!!

Reply 594

tfdes

Original post by TB.93

I am oficially giving up on this exam. I have never ever heard of that in my life.

You might want to have a look at this. It doesn't explain everything in a lot of detail but maybe it may familarise you with Action Theories.

Theoretical Perspectives.docx26.9KB

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Naf*

Can someone help me please.. Does anybody have any predictions for anomalistic psychology?

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tfdes

Original post by helpmekid

What the heck is : Ethnomethodology!!!!??? Can someone give a quick overview!!!

It looks at what makes social action possible.
Garfinkel's Breaching experiment, where he asked his students to go home and pretend to be lodgers, or to go into a shop and bargain for goods. This disrupted social order and highlighted the taken-for-granted assumptions that make up social life: you don't bargain in a shop.
He argued that people use 'repair mechanism' to make sense of situations, and social order has to be recreated everytime as society doesn't always function smoothly.

Hope this makes sense ..

Reply 597

Catherine:)

Original post by TB.93

What the HELL is action theory?!

Action theories are:
1. Weber and his social action theory
2. Symbolic interactionism
3. Phenomenology
4. Ethnomethodology
5. Gidden's structuration theory :smile:

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Reply 598

rural_boy

Original post by tfdes

Well, action theories is basically 'micro' sociology. This would include everything from Weber (Social action), Symbollic interaction, Goffman's Dramaturgical analogy, Becker's Labelling model and Ethnomethodology. It is quite a lot to remember, but you don't have to include everything in a question on Action theories, so it should be pretty simple :smile:

Phenomenology is action theory as well isn't it?

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Catherine:)

Does anyone know the questions/topics that came up in January 2012?

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