[coolasacucumber]

(Original post by Freiheit)
Anyone know how come the grade boundaries are so low?

Think it has something to do with the crazy amount of things were required to remember

[Freiheit]

(Original post by coolasacucumber)
Think it has something to do with the crazy amount of things were required to remember

You are right, there's a lot to get through but 54/90 (Jan12) and 53/90 (June11) for A still seems odd and strangely low . The Jan 12 one also had a nice 33 marker about Functionalism and New Right.

[coolasacucumber]

(Original post by Freiheit)
You are right, there's a lot to get through but 54/90 (Jan12) and 53/90 (June11) for A still seems odd and strangely low . The Jan 12 one also had a nice 33 marker about Functionalism and New Right.

Yeah, but even though its low i think in reality its not as easy to get it or is it?

Lucky them, thats a beauty of a question, shame means functionalism aint coming up for us ='(

[Freiheit]

(Original post by coolasacucumber)
Yeah, but even though its low i think in reality its not as easy to get it or is it?

Lucky them, thats a beauty of a question, shame means functionalism aint coming up for us ='(

I'm guessing suicide will come up lol

[beautifulmess]

(Original post by Hooby)
Has anyone got any revision documents/posters which they would be willing to share? I am trying to concentrate on psych (which is the day before) because I find it harder so please could someone post something up on here thanks x

Finding myself in the same situation.

[musqan1]

[QUOTE=Mariya786;38144474]ah yes it's helpful for action theory however, I need help with 'Globalisation, Modernity & postmodernity theory' ><'[/Q


Globalisation; social process where the entire world is being interconnected. Some sociologists argue that G. has changed society beyond recognition, Post modernists especially. Others disagree and believe that we can still generalise. so G. in the context of crime may vary.

G. has led to changes in the pattern and extent to crime. TAYLOR identifies this has created greater inequality & has caused a rise in crime, it also creates greater opportunities for elite groups to commit crime. Taylor clearly promotes a material culture ; gang members feel materially deprived and feel that they lack possession of new technologies, feel isolated from the advanced world. Here we can link COHEN'S status frustration as those isolated elite groups eventually turn to crime to overcome the inequality they feel.

G. has also led to new global crimes as well as an increase in crimes overall. CASTELLS argues that there are now global crime economies worth over £1 Trillion these include crimes such as; Smuggling of illegal immigrants, cyber crimes , international terrorism etc. These are also examples of the new and changed crimes. These changes have mainly enabled through the technological Innovation; through the availability of the internet and mobile phone it is much easier for criminals to create their own subcultures and to be connected world wide. (provide contemporary examples such as the London riots 2011)

However, some sociologists would argue that crime hasn't changed coz G., they would argue that it still has to do with strain; explain Merton's idea of strain and how it links to people being pulled towards deviancy mainly because they face social inequality and feel materially deprived.
Criticise this with using an example of India how they have been given access to technologies through a more globalised world e.g Telegurus (make use of unit 3 ) the increased awareness of technological innovation has been enabled by G. without G. taking place people in third world countries wouldn't feel deprived and would not be able to be conscious about the social inequality.

You could also briefly say that some sociologists such as Marxists and feminists belief that crime still has to do with capitalism and inequality. Whereas others believe that it is simply a factor of strain.

IF I AM MISSING OUT ON SOMETHING PLEASE ADD ONTO THIS WOULD HELP ME AS WELL

[musqan1]

(Original post by Freiheit)
I'm guessing suicide will come up lol

iT COULD COME UP AGAIN THE FORM THAT THEY ASK FOR THE mARXIST PERSPECTIVE AND WE WOULD THEN HAVE TO PROVIDE A CONTRADICTORY; fUNCTIONALISTS

[musqan1]

(Original post by beautifulmess)
Finding myself in the same situation.

GLOBALISATION :

Globalisation; social process where the entire world is being interconnected. Some sociologists argue that G. has changed society beyond recognition, Post modernists especially. Others disagree and believe that we can still generalise. so G. in the context of crime may vary.

G. has led to changes in the pattern and extent to crime. TAYLOR identifies this has created greater inequality & has caused a rise in crime, it also creates greater opportunities for elite groups to commit crime. Taylor clearly promotes a material culture ; gang members feel materially deprived and feel that they lack possession of new technologies, feel isolated from the advanced world. Here we can link COHEN'S status frustration as those isolated elite groups eventually turn to crime to overcome the inequality they feel.

G. has also led to new global crimes as well as an increase in crimes overall. CASTELLS argues that there are now global crime economies worth over £1 Trillion these include crimes such as; Smuggling of illegal immigrants, cyber crimes , international terrorism etc. These are also examples of the new and changed crimes. These changes have mainly enabled through the technological Innovation; through the availability of the internet and mobile phone it is much easier for criminals to create their own subcultures and to be connected world wide. (provide contemporary examples such as the London riots 2011)

However, some sociologists would argue that crime hasn't changed coz G., they would argue that it still has to do with strain; explain Merton's idea of strain and how it links to people being pulled towards deviancy mainly because they face social inequality and feel materially deprived.
Criticise this with using an example of India how they have been given access to technologies through a more globalised world e.g Telegurus (make use of unit 3 ) the increased awareness of technological innovation has been enabled by G. without G. taking place people in third world countries wouldn't feel deprived and would not be able to be conscious about the social inequality.

You could also briefly say that some sociologists such as Marxists and feminists belief that crime still has to do with capitalism and inequality. Whereas others believe that it is simply a factor of strain.

IF I AM MISSING OUT ON SOMETHING PLEASE ADD ONTO THIS WOULD HELP ME AS WELL

[coolasacucumber]

(Original post by Freiheit)
I'm guessing suicide will come up lol

Oh thats alright if it does, im literally revising every single topic now.

I reckon gender/ethnicity will come up

[Freiheit]

(Original post by coolasacucumber)
Oh thats alright if it does, im literally revising every single topic now.

I reckon gender/ethnicity will come up

I will do the same now, especially the more hidden parts like "victims of crime" and the "media" sections. I realised that I forgot almost everything about those topics.

(Original post by musqan1)
iT COULD COME UP AGAIN THE FORM THAT THEY ASK FOR THE mARXIST PERSPECTIVE AND WE WOULD THEN HAVE TO PROVIDE A CONTRADICTORY; fUNCTIONALISTS

Nice notes

[coolasacucumber]

(Original post by Freiheit)
I will do the same now, especially the more hidden parts like "victims of crime" and the "media" sections. I realised that I forgot almost everything about those topics.



Nice notes

I'm not on that bit yet, just finished revising perspectives. Just fml this is so long

[Freiheit]

(Original post by coolasacucumber)
I'm not on that bit yet, just finished revising perspectives. Just fml this is so long

It depends on what you need for this exam I think. At least we got until tuesday so that's good.

[musqan1]

(Original post by coolasacucumber)
I'm not on that bit yet, just finished revising perspectives. Just fml this is so long

Perspectives are sooooo long -_- i prefer topics such as globalisation but i doubt it will come again it already has twice. i need to go over perspectives

[Mariya786]

[QUOTE=musqan1;38145219]

(Original post by Mariya786)
ah yes it's helpful for action theory however, I need help with 'Globalisation, Modernity & postmodernity theory' ><'[/Q


Globalisation; social process where the entire world is being interconnected. Some sociologists argue that G. has changed society beyond recognition, Post modernists especially. Others disagree and believe that we can still generalise. so G. in the context of crime may vary.

G. has led to changes in the pattern and extent to crime. TAYLOR identifies this has created greater inequality & has caused a rise in crime, it also creates greater opportunities for elite groups to commit crime. Taylor clearly promotes a material culture ; gang members feel materially deprived and feel that they lack possession of new technologies, feel isolated from the advanced world. Here we can link COHEN'S status frustration as those isolated elite groups eventually turn to crime to overcome the inequality they feel.

G. has also led to new global crimes as well as an increase in crimes overall. CASTELLS argues that there are now global crime economies worth over £1 Trillion these include crimes such as; Smuggling of illegal immigrants, cyber crimes , international terrorism etc. These are also examples of the new and changed crimes. These changes have mainly enabled through the technological Innovation; through the availability of the internet and mobile phone it is much easier for criminals to create their own subcultures and to be connected world wide. (provide contemporary examples such as the London riots 2011)

However, some sociologists would argue that crime hasn't changed coz G., they would argue that it still has to do with strain; explain Merton's idea of strain and how it links to people being pulled towards deviancy mainly because they face social inequality and feel materially deprived.
Criticise this with using an example of India how they have been given access to technologies through a more globalised world e.g Telegurus (make use of unit 3 ) the increased awareness of technological innovation has been enabled by G. without G. taking place people in third world countries wouldn't feel deprived and would not be able to be conscious about the social inequality.

You could also briefly say that some sociologists such as Marxists and feminists belief that crime still has to do with capitalism and inequality. Whereas others believe that it is simply a factor of strain.

IF I AM MISSING OUT ON SOMETHING PLEASE ADD ONTO THIS WOULD HELP ME AS WELL

thank you so much! and right now I cant think of anything more until I've re-read over it >< !

[Azii]

Anybody have an idea which theory question might come up?

[JamesR1993]

Even if functionalism came up in January, you can and definitely should use it if Marxism/sub cultural/labeling comes up because they all argue with each other.

Personally, i'm predicting suicide/sociology as a science. That would be nice

Good luck to everyone with their revision. Let me know if there's anything i can help with

[Azii]

(Original post by JamesR1993)
Even if functionalism came up in January, you can and definitely should use it if Marxism/sub cultural/labeling comes up because they all argue with each other.

Personally, i'm predicting suicide/sociology as a science. That would be nice

Good luck to everyone with their revision. Let me know if there's anything i can help with

Could you briefly explain sociology as a science for me? I never really understood it that well.

[JamesR1993]

Yeah, no problem, i'll try to keep it brief but there is a lot to it .

Sociology as a science (should sociology be a science and how does it affect sociology):

Positivism: Positivists say that it is possible and desirable to apply the logic and methods seen in the sciences to studying society, in order to gain true, objective knowledge. This helps to solve social problems and to progress society). They compare society to nature.
Durkheim said that 'real laws are discoverable' and compares the scientist to the sociologist as they both exist to find already existing laws that govern both the world and society(known as induction or inductive reasoning)
They then talk about verificationism, which is the proving or verifying of a theory through numerous observations and induction and finding the facts behind problems help to find a way to tackle any problems that way, e.g if teacher labeling is a primary cause of educational failure then the knowledge surrounding it can be used to develop policies to challenge it.
Finally, positivists argue that all of their work should be objective and not subject to any of the researchers' own feelings because this can change the interpretation of the data that they are after - objective quantitative data, as this can be used to look for trends.

Interpretivism: Interpretivists don't like sociology modeled on the sciences.
Socology isn't a science, it is the interpretation of meanings and motives of actors involved.
They say that natural science only studies unconscious matter, that has no choice and only acts on a stimulus, whereas sociology studies people who have a consciousness and can interpret the world around them.
G.H.Mead said people interpret a stimulus meaning before acting on it, making us different to natural science 'matter'.
Interpretivists favor verstehen(empathetic understanding) meaning we should put ourselves in the actors shoes to understand them.

Karl Popper: Popper rejects positivist view on verificationism, saying induction is a fallacy(error). It is impossible, he says, to completely prove a theory as there is always a chance that something could change it. E.g 'All swans are white' can be destroyed by seeing a black swan, even if only white swans were observed/seen.

Falsificationism - Popper said a scientific statement is one that can be falisified or proven wrong by the evidence supporting it. E.g testing the law of gravity by dropping an object and seeing if it doesn't fall.
A good theory is: one that cannot be falsified even if it is, in principle, falsifiable and if it claims to explain alot and therefore makes it easier to falsify.
-Most of sogiology isn't a science because it cannot be tested or falsified. However, it can produce hypothesis to be tested so it CAN be a science.

Kuhn and paradigms: A paradigm is a basic skeleton of assumptions, methods and techniques that are followed by member of a community. This makes it like a set of norms because it somewhat governs how scientists should think and act. Science CANNOT exist WITHOUT a shared paradigm. Sociology is currently pre=paradigmatic (before paradigms can be used) and therefore is a pre-science. Sociology can only be a science if everyone agreed on underlying, basic principles of society and is currently not a science.

Quick bit on Realism: closed system are systems which the reasearcher controls everything, all variables involved whereas an open system is one that cannot be fully controlled or measured. Sociology is an open system that cannot be used to make exact predictions due to there being too many variables involved e.g predicting crime rates is impossible. However, sociology can study observable facts, such as social class, and this in turn makes it scientific.

Overall, its really positivism (quantitative and pro-natural science) v Interpretivism (qualitative and anti-natural science) with Popper (falsificationism), Kuhn (paradigms) and a tad of realism thrown in.

Sorry if this wasn't brief enough :P But there is a fair bit to the chapter

[emilysadlerx]

What's the likelihood of value free coming up? I'm so behind I literally have the day before the exam to revise as I have to do psychology!! Please can someone tell me what I NEED to revise and what I could get away with?


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[emilysadlerx]

also could a 33marker be on just neo-marxism?