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

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Can someone tell me what to write for social policies as a 24 marker question. I don't know what to write for it, mine is really basic.

Reply 81

Pilate

Original post by AyeshaAK

My teacher said most likely that social construction of childhood, demography or divorce(new right) may come up

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Reply 82

Maryam.Saleh42

You've got to have atleast a few on your essays, for example when mentioning radical feminist it would be advisable to mention the name of the theorist such as Germaine Greer!

Reply 83

AyeshaAK

HOW DID IT GO GUYS? I ACTUALLY LOVED THE PAPER! except the symmetrical question :smile:

That stupid extract didn't have enough for me to say 3 features of it so I bet i've lost 2 marks on that yup

Reply 84

rcheldean

I found it ok in all honesty! I don't like how they put divorce and marriage together but I still got it done :smile:

The ageing population was ok but what did everyone include?

Reply 85

Pilate

Couldn't think of what was a bean pole family guess I've lost 2 marks

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Reply 86

rcheldean

I guessed bean pole as extended family

Reply 87

euphoric-state

My teacher never thought to tell us what a beanpole family is -
it's a small, linear family tree asically just consisting of

Parent-----Parent

|
Child

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Reply 88

rcheldean

Original post by euphoric-state

My teacher never thought to tell us what a beanpole family is -
it's a small, linear family tree asically just consisting of

Parent-----Parent
|
Child

it's grandparents too :smile:

Reply 89

Mulechild

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Reply 90

username1345959

No one knew the first ****ing question lmao. It almost decreased my confidence for the paper. I was expecting policy and a little bit more feminism but oh well. I felt as if I wracked my brains trying to pack in as much extra revision as possible yesterday (went to bed at 2) only to find out that the huge topics didn't even come up. However, I still think it was a good paper and I think I did fairly well. I mentioned sociological views here and there where I felt it was necessary...none of the questions were explicitly asking for specific views which was annoying.
EDIT: I realise the rules only apply to Edexcel exams so I'll discuss now lmao

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Reply 91

sophia1245

WHO AGREED SOCIOLOGY WAS AWFUL :frown:

I only wrote a page for the last question

Reply 92

Alexandra0

For the symmetrical question, i put geographically isolated,young and affluent for a feature, is that right?

Reply 93

Alexandra0

Original post by sophia1245

WHO AGREED SOCIOLOGY WAS AWFUL :frown:

I only wrote a page for the last question

I thought it was awfull!! I didn't even write a page for the last question, had no idea what to put other than dependency and strain on services..

Reply 94

FlowC

Original post by Alexandra0

I thought it was awfull!! I didn't even write a page for the last question, had no idea what to put other than dependency and strain on services..

I wrote that too and social problems in family that woman have to care for them
Then u could add in the femenist doesn't like it

Reply 95

sophia1245

only thing i knew was what a beanpole was :frown:

i completly forgot to do conclusions too im so stupid :frown:

Reply 96

Alexandra0

Original post by FlowC

I wrote that too and social problems in family that woman have to care for them
Then u could add in the femenist doesn't like it

Yeah, so hard just hope the boundaries are low! For one of the features of symmetrical family i put geographical isolated,affluent and young but think thats not relevant!

Reply 97

FlowC

Original post by Alexandra0

Yeah, so hard just hope the boundaries are low! For one of the features of symmetrical family i put geographical isolated,affluent and young but think thats not relevant!

For symmetrical family I just wrote how the division of labour is equally shared, So both does housework and child care, and women going of to work

Reply 98

Alexandra0

Original post by FlowC

For symmetrical family I just wrote how the division of labour is equally shared, So both does housework and child care, and women going of to work

Yeah i put that but couldn't think of a third one so just put who was most likely to be symmetrical.

For the divorce question what did you say?

Reply 99

Libbie-

I loved this exam paper! Everything was what I was strongest with in revision and the first question was a keyword that I went over last night. Feeling good about this.