AQA A2 SOCIOLOGY: Official Revision Thread for 2015 exams!

I hate this subject, you all seem to know a lot. D: I'm literally wishing for realist theories (i love them), and human rights and state crime. A 33 marker on social policy would be lovely. ANYTHING BUT POSTMODERNISM I HATE IT SO MUCH D:


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If the question is about social action theories -weber, interactionism, phenomenology and ethnomethedology - then you compare them with structural theories - functionalism, marxism and feminism

You would refer to the methodological sides of those theories - interprevetism and postivism

An a*student would see the link between interactionism and a later interpretive theory -postmodernism and would end with that theory and show how it links back to interactionism but how they differ when it comes to establishing 'the truth'.

oh so it is essentially a question on left/right realists?
In my notes i have just got stuff on labour/conservative policies.
What would the general content of this 21 marker include?

Guys I'm really feeling:
-locality difference in social distribution of crime
-social action theories of crime
-realist theories of crime
-human rights/state crime
as potential 21 markers

For the theory/methods 33 mark question, I think a straight theory for the 3rd year running iais really unlikely. Likely possibilities are:
-positivist research methods
-sociology and values
-sociology and social policy (which would be an absolute nightmare)

What is everyone else thinking? And is anyone else leaving out last years topics all together (or going for selective revision based on their predictions)?

I sent you an essay plan to answer that question...i think

Oh right I'll have a quick look in a moment, do you know it's tittle?


Does anyone know how many possible essays there are for c+d and what theyre all called?
I'm going to try and make sure I have a plan for all of them but unfortunately my teacher hasn't made a list or anything stating what all the possible ones are and I am having a hard time working them out.

It's called right realist essay plan.

I did it for when there were 12 markers

Just weave in the left realist evaluations

Post it on here so I can have a look and others can download it

Do you know how I attatch the file?

any predictions for unit 3 beliefs in society?

I've been told: science, globalisation, fundamentalism and maybe social groups.

Science and ideology came up as a 33 marker in June 2012 so I'm thinking maybe science as a belief system as, as far as I'm aware, its never come up before

I've been told: science, globalisation, fundamentalism and maybe social groups.

Science and ideology came up as a 33 marker in June 2012 so I'm thinking maybe science as a belief system as, as far as I'm aware, its never come up before

What's the difference between science as a belief system and ideology? Cause I thought ideology was a set of beliefs lol

What's the difference between science as a belief system and ideology? Cause I thought ideology was a set of beliefs lol