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AQA AS Sociology help from a predicted 'A' grade student.

Yeah. Hello! Name's Megan, but stuff the introductions.

i'm sort of determined to prove to both myself and my family that I can actually help people out with Sociology and not just Medicine, as my parents would love to have me believe.

So if anyone needs any help with anything like layout / content for
15 / 30 mark answers {unit one- Families & Households} 12 / 20 mark answers {unit two- Education / Educational policy}

- Definitions for both units
- Research methods layout / content (unit two papers)

then let me know please? :smile:

and please don't be shy.

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Reply 1

Pilate

Any predictions or likely questions ??

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Reply 2

SoloStudent

can i have content and lay out for both of them ? thanks :smile:

Reply 3

euphoric-state

Original post by Pilate

Any predictions or likely questions ??

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I can't really predict what'll be on the exam, but I will say that I have a feeling (aka i've been told by half the college staff) that the exam boards will probably make the exams easier to do as a result of the January exams being scrapped, so there will be more to remember for the June ones, which isn't really fair.

I can, however, say with a large degree of certainty that they aren't likely to put the same questions on the paper 2 years in a row, so below are links to the JUNE 2013 Unit 1 + 2 exam papers, with a brief overview of the questions below :smile:

- Last years unit one questions

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Definition (2 mark): Infant Mortality Rate

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Suggest (4 mark): Rise in life expectancy

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Identify (6 mark): Change in divorce rate

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Examine (24 mark): Conjugal Roles

- Last years unit two questions
Education :

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Definition (2 mark): Material Deprivation

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Identify (6 mark): G/ment policies reducing social-class inequality

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Outline (12 mark): anti-school subcultures

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Item (20 mark): Gender difference in achievement and subject choice.

Research Methods :

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Methods in context (20 mark): Group interviews / Questionnaires

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Definition (2 mark) : Objectivity

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Suggest (4 mark): disadvantages - longitudinal research

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Suggest (4 mark) : advantages - structured interviews

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General Methods (20 mark) : Non / Covert ppt. obs.

I hope this has helped in some form aha :smile:

Reply 4

rosiex96

Can someone help me? My exam is next Wednesday for education and I am re-taking alongside my A2 exams. I'm struggling to remember anything!!!

Reply 5

tashy_123

What is the best way to set out a 24 marker for question on family?

Reply 6

rcheldean

hey could you tell me what to include in essays about:

-the family losing its functions
-government policies influencing family
-changes in family size

thanks!

Reply 7

sophia1245

I predict the 24 Mark question will either be on feminists views to family roles and relationship, social policies, or childhood

Reply 8

xtenshiai

Original post by sophia1245

I predict the 24 Mark question will either be on feminists views to family roles and relationship, social policies, or childhood

what makes you think that? just curious :smile:

Reply 9

Moshaib

Hello I'm taking part in the exam on Thursday aswell, families and households and I'm not going to lie I really need a bit of help, think I have the content that but just need brushing up on a few details, anyone helping is all I ask

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Reply 10

chelsealouisecad

Social Policies Which affect the family:

Thatcher's policies

Community Care Extended
Changes in Tax Laws
EMA cut for 16-18 Years olds

John Major

Child Support Act
Child Act

Labour

New Deal
Working Tax Credits
Child Tax Credit
2002 Adoption Laws
2004 Civil Partnership Act

Other Policies:

Only allowed to be married to one person
Extended education til the age of 18
Disability Pensions
Maternity and Paternity Leave.
Divorce Laws
Immigration Laws

Coalition Government

Recent budget cuts in public sector and NHS
Women's National Commission was cut.

You could be asked questions such as:

1. How do social policies support patriarchy
2. How do social policies support marriage and the conventional nuclear family
3. Examine how social policies have affected family diversity.
4. How have social families affected family life

Reply 11

xxwhiterabbitxx

Original post by judging

Ugh i haven't even touched sociology yet o.o last minute revision for it tomorrow

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Same, what are you predicted ?

Reply 12

Ediz

Who can predict whats gonna come up??

Reply 13

rcheldean

what would you write for life course?

marxism was up last year but i guess they could do it again! i thought feminism

Reply 14

xtenshiai

Original post by judging

My teacher thinks there will be essays on childhood, marxism and the life course theory

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what about demography?

Reply 15

aworldalone

Can you help me with how to approach a research method essay, and the best way to get high marks in it? What should I include, how many paragraphs etc. Any advice would be appreciated :smile:

Reply 16

gabernethy163

predictions for 15 of May 2014- Feminism, Family and Social Policy and Demography :smile:

hope this helped

Reply 17

leagoeson

what were last years questions for family unit 1?

Reply 18

sophia1245

Original post by xtenshiai

what makes you think that? just curious :smile:

I've looked at every single aqa past paper for sociology and if you write them all down in a column fammily diversity was in last years and year before and if you see theres a bit of a pattern and social policys hasnt been there in a while and feminists havent either