A2 SCLY4 Crime and Deviance Sociology Exam June 2014

Reply 1980

how can you answer this question? :/

“Feminism has revolutionised sociology by placing women at the centre of its analysis of society. However, while all feminists share this starting point, there are now many different ‘feminisms’ within sociology.”

Assess the contribution of feminist theorists and researchers to an understanding of society today.
(33 marks)

I think you would just talk about the different types of feminists and their approach to sociology e.g Marxist feminists, Liberal feminists and Radical feminists.

Reply 1981

subrina

Original post by shiggshady

I think you would just talk about the different types of feminists and their approach to sociology e.g Marxist feminists, Liberal feminists and Radical feminists.

hey isn't that just the first part of the question? :/

Reply 1982

mollyx

12

Can anyone explain phenomology to me please? I really don't understand! Is it necessary?

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Reply 1983

leanne1996

Can anyone explain Shaw and McKay's theory for locality and crime, about concentric zones and social disorganisation?
And Sutherlands differential socialisation idea? :smile:

Reply 1984

Annmarie123456

Original post by beckyyc17

Why is everyone basing predictions on last year's exam? Predictions only work assuming we have the January exams, but they got cancelled, so has that January exam been moved forward and is the one we're sitting, or do we have the original June ones? They are written 5 years in advance remember!!

Because there has hardly ever been an exam where they Have repeated the same questions from the previous year

Reply 1985

Tiffaniiejade

1

Original post by mollie_jacobs

What postmodernist sociologists has everyone got? I know quote a few of the theories, but the only actual sociologists I have is henry et al ��

Ive got baudrillard with simulacra :smile:

Reply 1986

username1194707

11

Original post by Annmarie123456

Because there has hardly ever been an exam where they Have repeated the same questions from the previous year

My teacher who marks the exams said they like to repeat questions and have often done so with beliefs, so it is impossible to predict

Reply 1987

mollie_jacobs

Original post by Tiffaniiejade

Ive got baudrillard with simulacra :smile:

Thank you! What do they say?

Reply 1988

chickenlicken

Where does Matza, delinquency and drift fit in? Is it locality?

Reply 1989

Stefan17

Does anyone think action theories will come up?

I don't think they've ever asked about it on any past papers for the 33mark question

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Reply 1990

lucyxxx

1

Original post by chickenlicken

Where does Matza, delinquency and drift fit in? Is it locality?

It's in subcultures

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Reply 1991

JackT95

5

What are the methods? :s-smilie:

Reply 1992

gloriousgloria

14

right, who said we could get feminism as a 21 marker -_- stop complicating it, isn't this linked to gender which came up last year ?!? :frown:

fml, I'm failing crime and theory. It's weird how I'm so confident for MIC despite doing 0 revision....

Reply 1993

sophier0bbins

Original post by mollyx

Can anyone explain phenomology to me please? I really don't understand! Is it necessary?

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I can't help you much as I barely understand it myself (honestly all that makes sense to me is Schutz's description of typifications - shared meanings - creating a sense of social order, making it participant produced) but according to a few people I've seen on this thread it would be fine to base it mostly on symbolic interactionism and use the other three action theories to criticse/compare etc :smile:

Weber's social action and symbolic interactionism are the only two action theories that make sense to me so I'll focus my essay on those and then briefly mention ethnomethodology and phenomenonology at the end :smile:

Reply 1994

sophier0bbins

Original post by gloriousgloria

right, who said we could get feminism as a 21 marker -_- stop complicating it, isn't this linked to gender which came up last year ?!? :frown:

fml, I'm failing crime and theory. It's weird how I'm so confident for MIC despite doing 0 revision....

Feminism will only be asked in the context of gender and crime for a 21 marker, there's no way they can directly ask about feminism in the crime section

Reply 1995

molly667

What are the chances of ethnicity coming up for a 21 mark? Definitely my worst topic...

Reply 1996

shiggshady

Original post by subrina

hey isn't that just the first part of the question? :/

These are some of the points I would include:
- It is too deterministic as it suggests that social behaviour is determined by social factors
- Catherine hakim says some women may be happy to be mothers and housewives
- with Marxist feminist you can talk about how the reserve army labour theory fails to explain why women end up with the responsibility for domestic labour.
- The feminist theory presents an over- socialised picture into conformist mothers and housewives when now many people choose not to become mothers.
- Because of the above reason Marxist and Radical feminist are considered outdated as they don't acknowledge e.g feminisation economy gaining more jobs in service sector than ever before.
-Marxist feminist may also be criticised by Walby who argues women staying at home harms capitalism.
-Liberal feminists fail to acknowledge that some laws introduced like equal pay act are ineffective as women still earn less than men.
- The feminist theory neglect the influence of social class and ethnicity and only looks at gender inequalities within society.

Reply 1997

Tiffaniiejade

1

Original post by mollie_jacobs

Thank you! What do they say?

Baudrillard argues society is no longer based on the production of material goods but buying and selling knowledge, signs stand for nothing which he refers to as simulacra, for example tabloid articles about soap operas are signs about signs.This has created a hyper reality, in which the simulacra appear more realistic than reality itself, if we cant distinguish between reality and simulacra/images we have no way of improving society through enlightenment. I think thats right :s-smilie:

its really confusing

http://www.slideshare.net/samtrieu/simulacra-and-simulations-jean-baudrillard slide number 8 may explain it better than I have :smile:

Reply 1998

mollyx

12

Original post by sophier0bbins

I can't help you much as I barely understand it myself (honestly all that makes sense to me is Schutz's description of typifications - shared meanings - creating a sense of social order, making it participant produced) but according to a few people I've seen on this thread it would be fine to base it mostly on symbolic interactionism and use the other three action theories to criticse/compare etc :smile:

Weber's social action and symbolic interactionism are the only two action theories that make sense to me so I'll focus my essay on those and then briefly mention ethnomethodology and phenomenonology at the end :smile:

Yeah that's the same as me! Like I understand weber and symbolic interactionalism but don't really understand the other too! Is that okay if we only briefly mention them then? Is it possible to get a question solely on phenomology or vice versa?

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Reply 1999

Onoderas

Original post by subrina

how can you answer this question? :/

“Feminism has revolutionised sociology by placing women at the centre of its analysis of society. However, while all feminists share this starting point, there are now many different ‘feminisms’ within sociology.”

Assess the contribution of feminist theorists and researchers to an understanding of society today.
(33 marks)

You'd just really need to work through each of the feminisms within Sociology, comparing, contrasting and evaluating between them. You don't need to really relate it to the quote that's provided it's just there like an Item to help stimulate your thoughts!

It's probably best to go liberal feminism-Idea of piecemeal reforms, changes in socialisation and culture, gender inequality comes from socialisation and outdated ideas, functionalist critique (of Parson's roles) etc. Then evaluate this by saying it's useful due to the changes in the law such as outlawing of marital rape, criticise with the radical approach about how it overestimates change-not all laws have benefited women, the glass ceiling of employment etc.

Then move onto radical, discuss the notion of patriarchy, men are the enemy, all men benefit from exploitation, the person is political, concepts of separatisim, consciousness raising, political lesbianism. You can link consciousness raising into their advocation of unstructured/group interviews and briefly do a discussion on them (you need to put both methods and theory in ANY 33 mark question to get into a decent band). After you've discussed the methods, then criticise radical feminism. Argue that it's concepts are illogical-heterosexuality cannot just dissapear, patriarchy is a self-defeating concept, doesn't account for lesbian domestic violence. You could counter with Goffman's Dramaturgical Model-the theory seems to assume women are stuck and cannot make active choice but all humans including women actively shape who they want to be. End criticisms with Marxist feminism-it isn't patriarchy but capitalism that oppresses.

Link this into Marxist feminsm, discuss the idea of women fulfilling the needs of capitalism. So reserve army of labour, soaking frustrations of alienation, socialising children, low pay. Also talk about Barret's ideology of familisim and how capitalism makes women go into oppressive structures. Evaluate with the criticism that it cannot explain why oppression exists in non-capitalist societies, argue that as radical feminism can explain this with patriarchy it may make it a better theory. But counter this by stating that Marxist feminism doesn't try to explain the position of women in non-capitalist societies.

Expand from this into dual-systems feminism, the combination of patriarchy and capitalism and how these ideas reinforce each other. Criticise this by stating that patriarchy is not a system but a term for a loose collection of concepts relating to female-orientated violence.

Criticise further with the problem of essentialism-other feminisms see women as sharing the same essence whereas difference feminism shows that oppression works differently, such as black women finding support in the family not subordination. Link this further into the idea of Butler's poststructural feminism, we need to see the different discourses of the world and how they oppress women. So for example, what does a discourse of the media in the west do to women, and a discourse of fundamentalist religion in the developing world do to women? The focus is on difference, not sharing the same.

Criticise this with the fact that it means change is impossible as women are no longer seen as being able to work together-they are all to different and end on the idea of women not being equal yet but progress has been made due to feminism, but conflict within the perspective means it's a flawed theory.

Hope this helped :smile:

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A2 SCLY4 Crime and Deviance Sociology Exam June 2014

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