AQA Sociology SCLY1 Family & Households 13th May 2013.

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Reply 240

salini1995

Original post by Dancerkatie

I have mine at 12 :s-smilie:

as i have a clash with another exam

What exam did it clash with is it M1 or C1

Reply 241

chellls

Original post by Dancerkatie

Heyy,
was wondering if someone could help me with planning an essay for this question....Examine the factors affecting the domestic division of labour and power relations between couples ??
Slightly starting to freak out about tomorrow !! :s-smilie:

I would talk about the symmetrical family
Parsons instrumental and expressive roles
Botts segregated and conjugal roles
The feminist view of housework (Oakley)
Things like: dual burden, emotion work, commercialisation of housework, gershunys impact of paid work how full time women do housework and Barrett&McIntosh (something to do with decision making and money)

I'm so scared for this exam!

Reply 242

Dancerkatie

Original post by salini1995

What exam did it clash with is it M1 or C1

Neither, it's with health and social care....glad im doing sociology first though cos im more worried about it

Reply 243

Dancerkatie

Original post by chellls

Thanks

I've been trying to write an essay plan for ages but i just couldn't decide what to include :tongue:

Reply 244

salini1995

Original post by Dancerkatie

Neither, it's with health and social care....glad im doing sociology first though cos im more worried about it

Don't worry everything will be good
Just relax and good luk with ur exams and I hope u get good grades :wink:

Reply 245

LucyDee4

A lot of people seem not very confident with childhood so I thought I would help a bit.. We went through some questions in the lessons, here is the structure for question about childhood. :smile:

Childhood:
Assess the view that the position of children in British society has improved.

Intro:

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What is the overall trend (we generally think it has got better -> march of progress view)

•

Define childhood - it's a social construction, not universal

•

Important topic as children are the future of our society

Part A: March of progress view

•

Aries (''mini adults''), contrast the past with today's notion of childhood as the golden age, society is child centred

•

Pilcher - separatness

•

Reasons for the changes (compulsory educations, laws restricting child labour, protecting children, benefits...)

•

Move from quantity to quality -> parents dedicate more time and resources to the fewer children they have, they are expected to make sacrifices for the children etc.

Part B: Conflict view (child liberationists)

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Palmer - Toxic childhood (technological and cultural changes are harming the children - teenage pregnancies, drinking drugs abuse etc. UK is on top of the international tables for these)

•

Gittins - Age patriarchy (control over children's space, time & bodies)

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Also diferences between children (ethnical, gender, social class..)

Conclusion: You can say something like childhood has largely improved but this has created new problems and briefly explain it.

Reply 246

Shadow_Amber

Original post by LucyDee4

A lot of people seem not very confident with childhood so I thought I would help a bit.. We went through some questions in the lessons, here is the structure for question about childhood. :smile:

Childhood:
Assess the view that the position of children in British society has improved.

Intro:

•

What is the overall trend (we generally think it has got better -> march of progress view)

•

Define childhood - it's a social construction, not universal

•

Important topic as children are the future of our society

Part A: March of progress view

•

Aries (''mini adults''), contrast the past with today's notion of childhood as the golden age, society is child centred

•

Pilcher - separatness

•

Reasons for the changes (compulsory educations, laws restricting child labour, protecting children, benefits...)

•

Move from quantity to quality -> parents dedicate more time and resources to the fewer children they have, they are expected to make sacrifices for the children etc.

Part B: Conflict view (child liberationists)

•

Palmer - Toxic childhood (technological and cultural changes are harming the children - teenage pregnancies, drinking drugs abuse etc. UK is on top of the international tables for these)

•

Gittins - Age patriarchy (control over children's space, time & bodies)

•

Also diferences between children (ethnical, gender, social class..)

Conclusion: You can say something like childhood has largely improved but this has created new problems and briefly explain it.

Thank you so much

Reply 247

LucyDee4

Original post by Shadow_Amber

Thank you so much

No problem :wink:

If there's anything else I can help with, just ask. It helps me too, I revise it as I'm writing it down :biggrin:

Reply 248

Hodan1996

Original post by LucyDee4

A lot of people seem not very confident with childhood so I thought I would help a bit.. We went through some questions in the lessons, here is the structure for question about childhood. :smile:

Childhood:
Assess the view that the position of children in British society has improved.

Intro:

•

What is the overall trend (we generally think it has got better -> march of progress view)

•

Define childhood - it's a social construction, not universal

•

Important topic as children are the future of our society

Part A: March of progress view

•

Aries (''mini adults''), contrast the past with today's notion of childhood as the golden age, society is child centred

•

Pilcher - separatness

•

Reasons for the changes (compulsory educations, laws restricting child labour, protecting children, benefits...)

•

Move from quantity to quality -> parents dedicate more time and resources to the fewer children they have, they are expected to make sacrifices for the children etc.

Part B: Conflict view (child liberationists)

•

Palmer - Toxic childhood (technological and cultural changes are harming the children - teenage pregnancies, drinking drugs abuse etc. UK is on top of the international tables for these)

•

Gittins - Age patriarchy (control over children's space, time & bodies)

•

Also diferences between children (ethnical, gender, social class..)

Conclusion: You can say something like childhood has largely improved but this has created new problems and briefly explain it.

How would you structure an essay about Postmodernity and the Life course? How much would you write because there is a LOT of information on it.

Reply 249

Charlotteannaa

Original post by hasan-1-

Is everybody sitting the exam at 2pm?

My school is sitting it at 1pm

Reply 250

LucyDee4

Original post by Hodan1996

How would you structure an essay about Postmodernity and the Life course? How much would you write because there is a LOT of information on it.

I'm not really sure about that one myself to be honest... They usually specify it in the question a bit more so you don't have to write absolutely everything. But if it is something like Examine the postmodernist view of the family, I guess I would do something like:

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Define postmodernism (micro-structuralist, interpretivist etc.)

•

Hareaven - Life course analysis

•

Morgan - Family pracitces

•

Giddens - greater choice, thanks to contraception sex became the main reason for the existance of relationship -> law and tradition don't have as much impact on the way family is formed

•

Beck - Risk society (more choice means more awareness of the risks -> today's family is more diverse but also less stable) -> ''negotiated family''

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Conclusion - much more diversity and it's all good and positive :smile:

Reply 251

Conorichardson

what are the easiest social policies to write about if a question on it comes up? at least 2 or 3 would be appreciated so i can get a good plan written!

Reply 252

lkgib

Original post by LucyDee4

A lot of people seem not very confident with childhood so I thought I would help a bit.. We went through some questions in the lessons, here is the structure for question about childhood. :smile:

Childhood:
Assess the view that the position of children in British society has improved.

Intro:

•

What is the overall trend (we generally think it has got better -> march of progress view)

•

Define childhood - it's a social construction, not universal

•

Important topic as children are the future of our society

Part A: March of progress view

•

Aries (''mini adults''), contrast the past with today's notion of childhood as the golden age, society is child centred

•

Pilcher - separatness

•

Reasons for the changes (compulsory educations, laws restricting child labour, protecting children, benefits...)

•

Move from quantity to quality -> parents dedicate more time and resources to the fewer children they have, they are expected to make sacrifices for the children etc.

Part B: Conflict view (child liberationists)

•

Palmer - Toxic childhood (technological and cultural changes are harming the children - teenage pregnancies, drinking drugs abuse etc. UK is on top of the international tables for these)

•

Gittins - Age patriarchy (control over children's space, time & bodies)

•

Also diferences between children (ethnical, gender, social class..)

Conclusion: You can say something like childhood has largely improved but this has created new problems and briefly explain it.

Hi thanks so much for this :smile:

I know this sounds silly but could you use this structure for any question relating to childhood? Thanks a million :smile:

Reply 253

Hodan1996

Original post by LucyDee4

•

Define postmodernism (micro-structuralist, interpretivist etc.)

•

Hareaven - Life course analysis

•

Morgan - Family pracitces

•

Giddens - greater choice, thanks to contraception sex became the main reason for the existance of relationship -> law and tradition don't have as much impact on the way family is formed

•

Beck - Risk society (more choice means more awareness of the risks -> today's family is more diverse but also less stable) -> ''negotiated family''

•

Conclusion - much more diversity and it's all good and positive :smile:

Thanks a lot :smile:

I was getting really confuzzled there, it's my worst topic

Reply 254

koysorahmed7

Original post by 3mmz

if demography comes up, do you have to know the actual numbers such as the uk population and how much it has risen, fell by blah blah blah?

No you just have to make sure you say that the trend is that e.g birth rates have decreased or death rate decreased

Reply 255

Astrid_Bastrid

Is postmodernism likely to come up as a 24 marker? What on earth would you include?

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Reply 256

koysorahmed7

Wish I had I photographic memory would make revision so much easier

Reply 257

LucyDee4

Original post by Astrid_Bastrid

Is postmodernism likely to come up as a 24 marker? What on earth would you include?

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scroll up couple of threads :wink:

Reply 258

DeepDarkSecrets

Original post by LucyDee4

No problem :wink:

If there's anything else I can help with, just ask. It helps me too, I revise it as I'm writing it down :biggrin:

I'm actually freaking out about this exam :frown:

so scared I hope I don't go blank in the exam.. Is it possible for a 24 marker to come up on something like Migration ?

Reply 259

ikz94

All the best for Tomorrow everyone feeling mixed enmotions of nerves and bit of confidence :s !!!! Hopefully we can tie our camels to the knot :tongue:

I'm just going over few studies in some topics and listening to my voicerecordings :/

I really hope couples is on that paper but dread both childhood and demography in 1 paper