SCLY1 15th May 2014 and SCLY2 21th May 2014 thread

How can you not know about interactionism? It's an important topic in the education unit. It's a study on the relationship between teachers and pupils and factors such as labelling, self fulfilling prophecy, anti school subculture, setting, streaming, banding, etc.

If you don't know about interactionism then I suggest you study it properly as it is a likely topic which may come up as an essay question in the upcoming scly2 exam

How can you not know about interactionism? It's an important topic in the education unit. It's a study on the relationship between teachers and pupils and factors such as labelling, self fulfilling prophecy, anti school subculture, setting, streaming, banding, etc.

If you don't know about interactionism then I suggest you study it properly as it is a likely topic which may come up as an essay question in the upcoming scly2 exam

What is interactionalism??? OMG i haven't learnt this

Page 103-107 in the aqa sociology textbook

Any predictions for the 20 markers?


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Structured interviews

Ethical issues maybe??

Thanks for the predictions, what about for education? Any guesses? :-)


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Education--- maybe ethnicity and under achievement, or boys achievement?

I hope! What makes you think it'll come up


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Ive been looking at the other past papers today and boys achievements hasn't come up at all so i thought it may come up on ours but then again i may be wrong

Good guess though! I really hope it does
I don't know what to think about unit 1 I'm not sure if I expanded on my points well enough and I feel like unit 2 is going to go badly :-(


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If anyone's struggling to answer the research method question its actually quite simple and iv'e (my teacher lol has) broken it down into two steps:

Step 1: Forget about the method you have chosen completely, for now. Come up with general issues regarding the context (these issues are usually practical ethical theoretical ones) The context is usually what the researcher is studying ie setting and streaming, but remember forget about how they are doing it!

Step 2: Does the method chosen improve the issues or does it make it worse

ie: one of the issues that arise with investigating setting and streaming is that access to the school may be difficult as consent is needed. However questionnaires help solve the problem of gaining access to the school because they can be just sent via post to the school.

Just repeat this through the essay also if the method makes the issue worse suggest other methods that may be better but dont write too much on it because the question is asking specifically to asses the use of your chosen method!

No offense, but that is a very stupid way of answering that question. Good luck getting a D.