AQA A2 Sociology Unit 4 20th June

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lack ecological vality
hawthorn effect
not sure if they're right

I also used the Hawthorne effect. Also wrote that the media may amplify the problem to attract viewers and therefore create a moral panic

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Bubbles0ox

Original post by jacko53bfc

I also used the Hawthorne effect. Also wrote that the media may amplify the problem to attract viewers and therefore create a moral panic

ah good no one ive talked to so far wrote hawthorne effect so thats promising :smile:

Reply 1382

lemzii

Original post by philosophizingnerd

what did you guys put for the experiments question?

I put about it being a broad subject and that it's deceitful if using juveniles they can get violent/angry lol wtf

Reply 1383

Bubbles0ox

can i just clarify?
dobash and dobash they used unstructured questionnaires to study domestic violent right?

Reply 1384

GiddensFTW

OK paper UNTIL the value free question.
Totally blanked out on Marxism too. Experiments question tripped me. Just had a bad day.

Original post by Bubbles0ox

ah good no one ive talked to so far wrote hawthorne effect so thats promising :smile:

I did too!

Reply 1385

philosophizingnerd

Original post by lemzii

apparently a lot of people in my college didn't even do the 33 marker :|
I thought it was quite cool once I remembered what value freedom was and about positivism and interpretivism :')
what did everyone write for the first one? I did left/right realism but I dont know if that was right

Yeah I put left and right realism plus I discussed Herishi(social bonds) and also social policies plus the effectiveness of government in stuff like Asbos

Reply 1386

Nana_A

Original post by jacko53bfc

Value freedom did anyone just use arguement between Kuhn/Popper and Positivist/interepretist?

Values is basically WEBER

Reply 1387

chigzy29

What a crap paperr deffo not getting into uni i didnt even have time to revise value free and how did everyone thought they done as everyone thought social policy would come up?

Reply 1388

GiddensFTW

Okay totally mixed up Popper with Kuhn. Forgot about Weber. Yay :biggrin:

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Bubbles0ox

Original post by GiddensFTW

I did too!

goood

Original post by philosophizingnerd

Yeah I put left and right realism plus I discussed Herishi(social bonds) and also social policies plus the effectiveness of government in stuff like Asbos

ah i mentioned left realism then freaked out and put marxism in or something wierd :/ really messed that up

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paulmch

Original post by Bubbles0ox

can i just clarify?
dobash and dobash they used unstructured questionnaires to study domestic violent right?

As far as I'm aware, yeah - I'll never forget them with a name like that studying domestic violence! :biggrin:

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Bubbles0ox

Original post by paulmch

As far as I'm aware, yeah - I'll never forget them with a name like that studying domestic violence! :biggrin:

YAY!
haha yeah its good!
in that case i really liked that question

Reply 1392

amylikespie

Value freedom, OMG.
Was not expecting that oooone.
I put stuff about value freedom (positivists) and then committed sociology, but then i was absolutely stuck and so tried to link in sociology as a science? And from that like Weber and interpretivists, etccc.

Don't think it was a bad exam, on the whole.

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RetroKid!

what a bitch of a paper LOL

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RetroKid!

actually no just the 33mark was the bitch

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allaboutdrama

Ahhh 33 marker threw me a bit!

Is this right?

Positivism
Comte, Durkheim
Popper

Feyerbend and Kaplan

Interpretivists
Interactionists
Feminist methodology

Postmodernists
Structuralists!

Wrote 13 pages overall, now cannt feel my hand!

Hope everyone found it ok xx

Reply 1396

Rachel_Leah

Original post by TAyres

who found that 33marker tricky? it was on something my school hadnt even covered!

Yeah we hadn't covered it in class, I'd rapidly read some notes before the exam so I vaguely remembered what it was about :/ I wrote just over a side : ( EPIC FAIL.

Original post by MonkeyMonger

I have a feeling that the grade boundaries will move towards normal ones now as it didn't seem too hard.

Yeah, I agree the questions were sort of like a god send to me (minus the last one!) But I hope I still get my C!

Original post by philosophizingnerd

what did you guys put for the experiments question?

I put something about not able to do a longitudinal study so cannot see changes over time as it's just one snapshot of a moment blablabla... :s-smilie:

And then I said how people are unlikely to act themselves especially in a lab experiment so it doesn't reflect real differences and relate to the real world...blablabla....

Original post by lemzii

For the first one, do you mean crime prevention strategies? Well once I realised that I would most def fail the last question I gave every other question all I could haha and wrote two and a half sides on situational and environmental crime prevention strategies, wanted to include social and community but ran out of time!

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Bubbles0ox

Someone help!? was this remotely right? will i get any marks?
Value freedom
Can be value free
Comte - positivist view point e.g. left realists and their results on cultural deprivation
Postivist view - just random general stuff
Durkheim - suicide - although not completely value free as it was a personal subject
Popper - wrote something wierd cant even remember

no value freedom
kuhn - paradigms - undermines science
erm..
Researchers have values on what they choose to study eg. feminists chose to study domestic violence
Researchers interpret things differently e.g crime stats - mentioned how marxism and left relaism has different opinions

Can't remember what i wrote but that is most of it
then i evalutaed through out with post modernism and real life examples
is that going down the right route?

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 1398

philosophizingnerd

Original post by allaboutdrama

when you mean struturalists; do you mean functionalists and marxists?

Reply 1399

woejane

Well, that went better than I expected. Was kinda hoping for an A in the paper, as a back up if I didnt get an A in my R.S

It went well, but maybe not A material -- but then again, grade boundries are actually lower for sociology than you would think.

Last question threw me a little o.O