SCLY3 Beliefs in Society June 2012 Thread

Those are the sort of questions I don't like. Do you mean the crime & deviance paper? I'm dreading both although I enjoy C&D far more. The 33 marker could potentially be very tricky though.

Not sure how I would go about doing that one myself... I'd certainly avoid it.
Yeah, the C&D. The crime questions are okay, as is the methods in context, but it's the 33 marker I really dread. If action theories come up, I shall just give up, the one section I hate, and yet it could well appear...

:| dear God, I hope Action theories don't come up....the 33 marker is definitely the one to beware of, hopefully the examiners have been nice this year and given us a good paper.

My hope is that paper 1 turns out fine, so I can afford to get lower in the C&D... Religion shouldn't go too badly, hope it's as good as last time anyway.

For C&D, I suppose UMS would help if everyone found the 33 marker horrendous, so that's a slight positive :L

Finally after ages of searching ie found this thread... I've revised functionalism, Marxism, feminism, church, sect, denominations and cults, NRMs and nearly finished NAS... Need to do the globalisation thingy, secularisation, religious fundamentalism and ... The ideology religion and science stuff but il have to do all that on Monday coz I have psychology to revise for... I was wondering if anybody has any predictions on what might be comin up as it would make my revision much much easier !

Any Predictions on 33 and 18 Marker ? Thank You

33 perhaps either Marxism or Postmodernity

18 Globalisation or Science

Who knows though, could be vice-versa! I'm just hoping social groups doesn't come up as an 18 marker.

Whats the diff between

New Age Movements? and the other one

Whats

World Accomondating Groups
and World Affriming Gropus??

What are they and whats the difference?

New Age Movements have emerged since the decline of established religion and often have a spiritual dimension. Individuals may turn to New Religious Movements in absence of a grand narrative, seeking a personal rationale. Bruce identified three types of NRM, which include world accommodating groups, world affirming groups and world rejecting groups. World affirming groups tend to be individualistic and life positive. They are not critical of the outside World and do not require exceptional committment - example of this movement would be the Church of Scientology. Worlld accommodating groups tend to be more orthodox in that they maintain some connections with the outside world but place a high value on inner religious belief. Buddhism is an example of this.

I thought it was Wallis that identifies the three types of NRM's .

That's what I'm hoping - if religion is fine, then dropping a little in C&D won't be the end of the world. I need to get an A* in Sociology though, so I can only afford to drop 20 marks overall :| it's a worrying thought. And is it just me, or was the June 2011 paper amazing?! I would've loved that paper I'm really beginning to think that after a good June 2011 and Jan 2012 paper, our paper is going to be awfully hard...

Haha, I must admit that the thought of that comforts me somewhat.

I need an A myself, which is still tricky enough. My teacher expects an A*, though I really doubt this will be the case. The last two were very good, and often a bad one can follow the nice, but again, UMS is a thing!

Getting an A/A* in Sociology is no mean feat....I really don't understand why A-level Sociology has such a bad rep, it's not soft at all!

Ah yes, UMS. Anyway, good luck hopefully it goes well for both of us!

I know, in my school, maths is timetabled at the same time as sociology and gets looked down upon. People don't realise the extent of what we have to learn!

Good luck to you too, here's hoping globalization!

If postmodernism came up what could you link it with??

Am i right in thinking social change and fundamentalism??