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I second the above post. Are the any predictions for the media paper? I've not seen anyone post anything. Regardless, New Media and Globalisation didn't come up last year, and they almost always do that or Ownership and control.

hmm I agree with new media/globalisation and also representations and news as a social construction maybe!

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CLJD

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Could anyone help please - my teacher hasn't been over social policy in class with us yet and has set us an essay to do from our textbooks but I can't really get my head around it...could anyone please summarise the main points of social policy as part of the theory and methods section? Also the essay we were set is:

"Sociological arguments and research evidence canhave a very important influence on the social policies of governments.” To what extent do sociological arguments andevidence support this view?

How would you go abut structuring this essay and what content would you use?
Thank you in advance :smile:

Reply 782

nicoleemmak

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If anyone has a plan or an essay for 'assess sociological explanations of science and ideology as belief systems' could you please send it to me. Im so confused with this chapter

Reply 783

Wendikorb

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a lot of people are saying that sociology as a science could come up as an essay for the 33 marker on the crime and deviance section, could someone give an overview as to how you'd write it, thanks

Reply 784

dpka1

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Original post by CharlotteStar

Does anyone have any full marks examplier answers for any of the scly4 questions plsz ?
Thanks

sociologya2answers.wordpress.com

my website with a few full mark essays for
THEORY and METHOD
METHOD IN CONTEXT
MASS MEDIA
CRIME AND DEVIANCE

Reply 785

dpka1

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sociologya2answers.wordpress.com

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Uw0tm8_

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These booklets are so helpful

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Reply 787

ciaralouise97

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Has anybody got any predictions for tomorrow's education paper?

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Reply 788

gkgs

2

What are the predictions for unit 3?

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Reply 789

JaFl015

Do you have the actual workbook questions? these answer booklets look great!

Reply 790

hillzer121

2

So what are the definite predictions for crime and deviance?

Reply 791

SJJ97

2

What would you include in a postmodern view of society (theory and methods?)

Reply 792

Elannm

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I've gone through this forum, among others and piled together a list of the most popular predictions for SCLY3 and SCLY4 (the numbers represent how many times someone has predicted that topic):

SCLY 3:
Globalisation (10)
Science & ideology (7)
Secularisation (5)
Organisations, movements &members (3)
New Age (1)

SCLY 4:
Crime & deviance:
Globalisation (17)
State crimes (8)
Green crime (1)
Suicide (6)
Labelling (6)
Age (6)
Punishment/victims (4)
Ethnicity (2)
Gender (2)
Functionalism (2)
Social policy (1)
Marxism (1)
Control & crime prevention (1)
Mass media (1)

Theory:
Modernism, Postmodernism &Globalisation (10)
Sociology & science (5)
Social action theories (4)
Social policy (4)
Objectivity & values (3)
Functionalism (1)
Methods (1)

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Reply 793

Francesca2298

4

Always remember to make sure you write the argument between positivists and interpretivists. My teacher told me even if you just wrote about those two perspectives you can pick up very good easy marks. Other sociological perspectives would be Postmodernism and theorists such as Kuhn (Paradigms) and Karl Popper.

I've attached a mind map that i created because i honestly did not have a clue as to where to start with Sociology as a Science until i taught myself.

Reply 794

Francesca2298

4

Here's a mind map on Sociology and Suicide.

Reply 795

SJJ97

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Modernism, Postmodernism &Globalisatio- HELP

Reply 796

Uw0tm8_

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Original post by SJJ97

Modernism, Postmodernism &Globalisatio- HELP

Which unit?

Reply 797

SJJ97

2

Original post by Uw0tm8_

Which unit?

Theory and methods

Reply 798

nicoleemmak

2

Original post by Elannm

I've gone through this forum, among others and piled together a list of the most popular predictions for SCLY3 and SCLY4 (the numbers represent how many times someone has predicted that topic):

SCLY 3:
Globalisation (10)
Science & ideology (7)
Secularisation (5)
Organisations, movements &members (3)
New Age (1)

SCLY 4:
Crime & deviance:
Globalisation (17)
State crimes (8)
Green crime (1)
Suicide (6)
Labelling (6)
Age (6)
Punishment/victims (4)
Ethnicity (2)
Gender (2)
Functionalism (2)
Social policy (1)
Marxism (1)
Control & crime prevention (1)
Mass media (1)

Theory:
Modernism, Postmodernism &Globalisation (10)
Sociology & science (5)
Social action theories (4)
Social policy (4)
Objectivity & values (3)
Functionalism (1)
Methods (1)

I'm going to be honest I would not rely on these predictions. I would be nearly 100% certain that ethnicity will not come up for crime and deviance, whilst there is a good chance that Marxism will come up. And what is social policy for crime? I'm really freaking out that age or something will come up

Reply 799

SJJ97

2

Original post by nicoleemmak

I'm going to be honest I would not rely on these predictions. I would be nearly 100% certain that ethnicity will not come up for crime and deviance, whilst there is a good chance that Marxism will come up. And what is social policy for crime? I'm really freaking out that age or something will come up