AQA sociology exam today?!?!

"To remove any confusion, here is the definition of a household from the mark scheme of June 09.

a household consists of a person living alone or a group of people who live communally, eg
share accommodation and eat together."

That's the same as me What was your answer for the question on cohabitation?

I didn't use the item either :/

you had to say something like
fear of divorce
high of expections so too much pressure
cost of wediings
its less frowned upon

I spoke about declining stigma and also changes in the position of women about paid work


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(Original post by nayana71)
how did you define households





Omg 😭 i didn't know how to word it so i wrote something like there is different types of households and gave single and one person households as a example😭😭 failed that an last question was hard it i was just like wth todays society? What did you guys write about? (Original post by jordcook)
I feel the exact same, I really enjoyed this paper though, especially the childhood question! However I'm not very confident that I did well enough ah, how did you find it? Ughh quotation thing not working properly

What did you guys write for the question about marxists

I basically wrote the 3 things in the marxist perspective of family so:
Unit of consumption, Inheritance of property and ideological functions

What did you guys write for the question about marxists

i nearly wrote inheritance of property for the marxist question but then i decided not to as i didn't think that was really linked to capitalism as such, more to the husband?

i wrote:

1) the reproduction and maintenance of the labour force needed for capitalism
2) socialising its members into the capitalism values, by teaching them that there will always be someone above them giving them orders, through parental (particularly patriarchal) control
3) unit of consumption; the family is encouraged to "keep up with the joneses" and children are encouraged to use "pester power" and so the family makes a profit for capitalism

and for household definition i wrote:

a group of people who live under one dwelling who share things such as food, bills and rent. they can be related or unrelated.

for cohabitation:

secularisation
declining stigma and changing attitudes

for the policies essay i used social policies and theories/perspectives on social policies e.g. feminists, functionalists, new right.

for the childhood essay i talked about postman and palmer and the disappearance of childhood, the general changes that have occurred since the middle ages and used aries and shorter, and how childhood is actually being extended due to parental control e.g. control over resources, children's bodies etc. as that was also linked to the item.

For the policy question i spoke about the new right. new laboir and functionalist views and i did include some policies but i dont think i linked to how it would impact family life...how many marks could i loose?