AQA Sociology Unit 1 17/05 & Unit 2 23/05 - Official Thread 2016

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Our college does Culture and Identity for Section B. To be honest, I thought it was amazing, as exams go. However, most people in my class absolutely hated it, so of course I'm paranoid that I did it wrong, aha.

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username1696923

Would I get a mark if I put about woman delaying childbirth due to issues with fertility i.e. takes longer due to processes such as IVF and Adoption, I BLANKED IM SORRY

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EXAMSRESS2015

Original post by bethgroves

48 - e
60 - d
72 - c
84 - b
96 - a

96 that far too high
your saying we can only loose 24 marks all together. NO LOL
on one paper you can loose minimum 20 and get an A

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Bubbles98

Original post by EXAMSRESS2015

96 that far too high
your saying we can only loose 24 marks all together. NO LOL
on one paper you can loose minimum 20 and get an A

So do you know the actual breakdown then?? 😁

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Jzarin

Original post by Thamani

I did:

COMPULSORY SCHOOLING:
- negative effect as it contributed to the age patriarchy (Gittens) by increasing dependency on adults by restricting work time. Linked it in negatively with control of children's time. Then countered it with school allowing adults time to work to pay for their child to have a better childhood.

AGE RESTRICTIONS:
- positive as they protect children. Supported it by saying it is an almost universal value in society to keep children safe.

Not sure if they're right, but that's what I had. What did you put?

Hi,

this question has been bugging me all day i put:

child protection laws and the introduction of things like childline all help to make childhood a safer time in life filled with happiness and innocence. children are much more valued, protected and nurtured today. this is supported by aries and shorter who argue that the family has become child centred. children are the focal point of families and their parents invest a lot of time and money into their wellbeing, therefore govt policies have helped to improve childhood

for my second point:
laws revealing that adults, especially parents, have a key role in their childrens safety and well being. this can be negative effect because parents restrict the chance of children experiencing life. then i bought in sue palmer and toxic childhood. how children are at home all day engrossed in video games and eating junkfood and therefore are unable to make connections and communicate with other children, whereas before technology they coud. therefore it is clear that some policies restrict children.

what do you think of this??

your answer sounds great btw

Reply 1005

starryxxx

guys what do you think the score for an A will be for as sociology new spec

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hollyxjay

Original post by 10studentlife

Would I get a mark if I put about woman delaying childbirth due to issues with fertility i.e. takes longer due to processes such as IVF and Adoption, I BLANKED IM SORRY

I wrote about IVF and other fertility stuff and when I spoke to my teacher afterwards she said that it was a good point, so hopefully you should get a mark

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username1696923

Original post by holly1798

I wrote about IVF and other fertility stuff and when I spoke to my teacher afterwards she said that it was a good point, so hopefully you should get a mark

Thanks so much, I wrote 4 examples just incase, as i wasnt sure about that and the another I wrote!

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hollyxjay

Original post by 10studentlife

Thanks so much, I wrote 4 examples just incase, as i wasnt sure about that and the another I wrote!

No problem! :smile:

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hollyxjay

Now both of the units are done, which one did you think was the best?

For me the second paper was better compared to the education one, I did a lot better on the questions and found them easier to answer and explain.

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xJaayyy

Surely the main body for the 16 marker was Hard vs Soft statistics?

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Thamani

Original post by Jzarin

Thanks! I wasn't sure about mine :tongue:

I think you'd get the full marks on the first point, but not sure about the second one. What sort of policies were you getting at?

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tory_toozieee

Original post by bethgroves

RM-

4 marker ; consent & protection from harm explained each

16 marker ; Advantages;
1. Secondary data
2. Saves time & money
3. Easy to access
4. Official so is reliable & representative5. Doesn't break ethical issues

Evaluated with ; disadvantages
1. Don't get enough depth
2. May not get the information you wanted as it is secondary data

FAMILY & child hood

* 2 marker ; on serial monogamy - didn't answer

* 2 marker ; on how women are exploited - through domestic labour & violence but explained in more depth

* 6 marker ; 3 reasons for women having later birth
- decline in infant mortality rates
- family is smaller so both parents likely to work creating dual earnings
- child centredness ( explained each )

*10 marker ; government policies affecting childhood
- Sex discrimination Act & Equal Pay Act
- civil partnership act ( explained in detail )

* 20 marker ; on Marxism

- Marxists believe family benefits capitalist system & inequality
- Engels - inheritance
- Zaretsky - "king of castle " men are oppressed at work , come home and oppress women
- referrerd to item B
- evaluated with Murdock 4 functions- parsons 2 functions & included how the expressive leader provides "emotional stability " as mentioned in item B ( well developed answer )

How well do you think I've done with answers like that ? I can take criticism just need honesty and an idea ! Around about what grade & how many marks !

You literally wrote the exact same as me 😂 let's hope we did okay!

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Jzarin

Original post by Thamani

Thanks! I wasn't sure about mine :tongue:

I think you'd get the full marks on the first point, but not sure about the second one. What sort of policies were you getting at?

yeah i think i completely failed the second point. :frown:

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i was trying to mention the fact that the policy that adults are responsible for children can have a negative effect because of the fact they stay at home all day and not let kids go out because they're worried about their safety and therefore the children are denied communication with other kids and chance to establish friendships

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SonyToprano

For the 20 mark family and household essay of Marxist view of the family I talked about Functionalism, Marxism, Feminism and Personal life. Just wondering would Personal life perspective be relevant?

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bethgroves

Original post by EXAMSRESS2015

96 that far too high
your saying we can only loose 24 marks all together. NO LOL
on one paper you can loose minimum 20 and get an A

That's great news then our teachers told us them break downs !

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bethgroves

Can someone tell me how many marks they think I've got on the research methods part from my answers ? Really need to know !

4 marker ; consent & protection from harm explained each

16 marker ; Advantages;
1. Secondary data
2. Saves time & money
3. Easy to access
4. Official so is reliable & representative.
5. Doesn't break ethical issues

Evaluated with ; disadvantages
1. Don't get enough depth
2. May not get the information you wanted as it is secondary data

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LillyFaye

OMG guys I JUST REALISED I done screwed up. I misread the official statistics question and thought it was advantages and sisadvantages. I wrote a lot of advantages but I did the same amount of disadvantages and I started with disadvantages and I didn't write a conclusion. Will I still get away with it?

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Louise12307

Ok these were my answers (what I can remember!)

1.
- Risk of partaking in immoral/illegal activities (I remember giving an example of "if a sociologist was researching gang crime then he might choose an overt style for his own safety")
- Deception and said that it could be immoral if the sociologist doesn't allow fully informed consent (think I mentioned children) so may therefore opt for an overt method

2. - I gave an intro defining what official statistics are and gave an example of the BCS.- I split the following into 3 paragraphs with 1 strength and 1 weakness:
Strengths = results easy to analyse and compare and so positivists love this compared to qualitative methods such as interviews, quick cheap and relatively easy to obtain due to many being public documents, also wrote about larger sample n therefore increased representivity due to wide geographical and social areas being covered
Weaknesses = interpretivists argue for lack of validity due to it being essentially just surface facts and doesn't paint a true picture, many organisations work for the government so there can be political influence/bias, the wording of categories can be vague or inapplicable to sociologist terminology as well as many names changing over time which makes it difficult to study longitudinally
- then I summed it all up in a conclusion

FAMILY SECTION

1. I defined serial monogamy as:
"Serial monogamy is when someone has more than more marriage in their lifetime. However, an individual is only with one person at any one time. Serial monogamy may be increasing in the UK due to rising divorce rates."

2. I wrote that women are believed to be exploited in the home by the way that their domestic labour maintains and reproduces a capitalist workforce. (Mentioned Benston) For example, a woman's cooking/cleaning for her husband revitalises him and keeps him at work and so the workforce is maintained, also childbearing reproduces the next generation of capitalist workers.

3. My 3 reasons for women delaying childbirth:
- changing attitudes towards childbearing due to the genderquake (Wilkinson), women may see these things as optional now
- equal pay act and increasing educational success of women which has encouraged girls to do well in school and aim for a career, therefore prioritising it above childbearing
- commercialisation of childhood has perhaps led to many women delaying childbirth until they are financially stable enough to support a child

4. For my two government policies affecting childhood I first wrote an introduction
- then i wrote about compulsory schooling coming in first in 1880 and raising of the leaving age through the butler education act and how this would affect children's experience of childhood because they would be in school longer, thus protecting them from early child labour which was acceptable before
- I wrote about introduction of the NHS in 1948 and it positively affected children's experience on childhood due to mass immunisation from diseases such as whooping cough. Mentioned lowered IMR as well.
- summed it up in a conclusion

5. Well, in a nutshell I wrote like quite a few paragraphs plus an intro and conclusion because I had bags of time lmao?????

- intro basically said how Marxists view the family as an institution working together to benefit capitalism (quoted item B). However Functionalists and feminists may disagree as to how well this contributes to our understanding of the family
- first para was a small explanation about how Marxists view the family as a microcosm of society, I explained each person taking on a symbolic role (father - bourgeoisie and mother as proletariat) and how this exploitative relationship reflects the wider society. Outlined that the family performs 3 main roles - ideological, inheritance and consumption.

- okay I got going here! Para 1:
P - one function of family according to Marxists is an ideological function
E - Zaretsky
E - family socialises children into capitalist ideology, also added that Marxist Feminist Benston believed that this was done by women maintaining and reproducing workforce

Para 2:
P - Marxists say that the family is a unit of consumption
E - Zaretsky
E - families are pressured to 'keep up with the joneses' by buying all the latest gadgets, clothing etc. This is further reinforced by peer pressure and stigmatisation of children if they don't own these things. The mass media targets children in the hopes that they will used their 'pester power' in order to persuade parents and by consumption a capitalist society is maintained.

Para 3:
P - family performs a function through inheritance
E - Friedrich Engels
E - he argues that the only reason the nuclear family continued post-industrialisation was due to encouragement from the bourgeoisie in order to protect their property and wealth. Monogamous relationships ensures legitimacy of children and direct heirs to inheritance, therefore maintaining class inequality.

Para 4:
P - these previous points are the Marxist contribution to our understanding of the family but Functionalists argue that they ignore the benefits that the family brings to society
E - Murdock
E - Functionalists such as Murdock argue that primary socialisation of children encourages a spirit of meritocracy (hard work) and respect

Para 5:
P - feminists argue that Marxists ignore gender inequalities in the home
E - delphy
E - think I briefly mentioned domestic violence but elaborated more in my conclusion

- summed it up in my conclusion saying that the Marxists contribute to our understanding of the family through 3 main functions. However, Functionalists would argue that Marxists ignore the benefits of family in society. Feminists argue that Marxists ignore evidence of gender inequalities in the home. For example, Oakleys research into male participation in domestic labour, she found that just 15% were actively partaking in housework. Additionally, a further criticism of the Marxist perspective is that it tends to assume that the nuclear family is the dominant family type in society. However it only accounts for around 26% of family types at any one time and so they ignore family diversity.

WHEW! Someone please give me an idea of how I did????

Reply 1019

MorganColey

Original post by bethgroves

I'd say you've done really well! I did the same for the 4 marker but for the 16 marker I did secondary data, saves time and money, easy to access, can see trends and patterns and then I said the data is distorted/manipulated by the government and also the data is inaccurate e.g when dealing with illness, mental illness, rape and domestic violence