AS AQA Sociology Families + Households

Asses and examine are not the same thing!!! Examine is your looking at reasons. Assess is your arguing explicitly for and against and then reaching a judgement in the examine you dont reach a judgement.

Buy a bloody thesaurus! Look up the word 'assess' and you will find 'examine' sat next to it. Then look up the word 'conclude' and you will find 'judgement' sat next to it. I am in Year 13, I got an A in this exam last year.

Excuse me theres no need to be rude. I could be wrong but you mean to say you do the EXACT same thing for both questions in terms of structure? Well then why is the mark scheme giving different criteria for both?

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Okay fair enough, but yes, providing that the question is on a sociological thesis, such as feminism, structure the same for both - 'assess' or 'examine'. For example, I would approach 'assess the usefulness of feminism...' and 'examine the role of feminism...' identically.

Please can someone explain to me what age patriarchy is, its so vague and waffled in my text book.

You know I would put an intro in the Item questions.

Try follow this structure- I could be wrong or there could be other ways but heres my advice

P- POINT- make your point
E- Evidece- Back the point up by a static/ Sociologist
E- Explain, so what does this statistic show, what does Sociologist mean?
A- Analyse- Therefore this means...
L-LINK- Make an explicit link back to the question, bringing your paragraph together
E- Evaluate- This is where you pick up the high marks so strengths and weaknesses

So heres a past exam question on social policy
Something like this.....How does social policy affect family life

Point: Item B presents a New Right perspective on the effects of SP on family life, highlighting a negative view towards them saying "they make families less self reliant" (made up)

Explain: The New Right believe that the "best" and ideal type of family is the traditional nuclear family with its division of labour as they are self reliant, but they argue that social polices namely generous welfare benefits undermine this self reliance .

Example (explanation and example can be whatever order) For instance Murrey argues they give "perverse incentives" rewarding irresponsible behavior. He looks to benefits such as giving teenage mother council houses and generous payouts.

Analysis: This has a negative effect because this encourage lone parent family, and they believe this is harmful to the family because parents cant socialise tehir children, discipline blah blah

Link: Thus the NR believe SP have a negative effect on families as they make them more dependent on the state, and it could encourage family types like LP that can have an effect on its members

Eval: But some feminists argue that lone parent families have a positive effect on families, making girls more dependent as they have a female role model

Hope it helps, I could just be completely wrong lol


With social polices, if its an asses question asking for the effects on family life then counter arguments would be positive effects and negatives to get that asses aspect about...I think

Actually its Feminism they are saying

Post modernism came up in Jan 2013

Anyone got reasons for why childhood isnt socially constructed?

(ive only got Wyness with the dominant framework and prout who backs it up with the idea of development-ism IDEK if they relate i cant find anything ffs)

Thats such a good question! I dont know erm you could say how everybody has different experiences of childhood even in the same societies so if childhood was socially constructed wouldnt it all be the same?

Also id also point out some children rebel against the social construction, for instance in Britain there's an idea of vulnerability- but crime from youth is on the rise

Ooh thanks!
Ive also got functionalist believe that childhood is a distinct phase where primary socialisation takes place.. which is the same in every society

Buy a bloody thesaurus! Look up the word 'assess' and you will find 'examine' sat next to it. Then look up the word 'conclude' and you will find 'judgement' sat next to it. I am in Year 13, I got an A in this exam last year.

Mate, asses and examine are not the same thing REGARDING sociology and properly every other examination. Examine means to explain, but assess consists of looking at both sides of the argument

Why are you being so rude? she's merely trying to correct you.

Probably*

can someone tell me what engles says

Actually its Feminism they are saying

Post modernism came up in Jan 2013

Mate, asses and examine are not the same thing REGARDING sociology and properly every other examination. Examine means to explain, but assess consists of looking at both sides of the argumentOur teacher said that examine, explain, asses are essentially the same thing, because while we examine/assess/explain, we would be writing the same content e.g. advantages, disadvantages etc. in all cases we are analyzing sociological perspectives or policies