AQA A2 SOCIOLOGY: Official Revision Thread for 2015 exams!

Bauman 'crisis of meaning' ? Can someone please explain

bauman is a 'liquid modernist' - he made up the term

if we think of modernity as being fixed and postmodernity as being completely unfixed then Bauman is somewhere in the middle....like postmodernists he would agree that old meanings are being undermined in a rapidly changing globalised world but unlike postmodernists does not believe that we are in an historical period that is so new it is after or post modernity. He believes in the promises of the enlightenment project


hope this helps

Does anybody know the sociologist who said something along the lines that we shouldn't ask why working class commit crimes but why they don't commit more crimes?

Does anybody know the sociologist who said something along the lines that we shouldn't ask why working class commit crimes but why they don't commit more crimes?

I don't get it, is that what crisis of meaning means?

Hey guys! I'm trying to write a plan for a 33 marker on secularisation 'assess the view that secularisation has been a feature only of modern European society' and I'm struggling a bit. My plan so far is:
Intro- define secularisation, mention disagreements about it
P1- Evidence of secularisation in Britain
P2- Explanations of secularisations
P3- Reasons why secularisation isn't occuring (cultural defence, transition and spiritual revolution)

Then I also want to perhaps include a point about religion changing not declining and bring in believing without belonging? Not sure if this would work or not?
And then mention about secularisation in America to say that secularisation is not just european?

Does this plan sound along the right lines and have I missed any crucial points? Thank you!

what are the types of research methods in context?

I would just follow the lines of one secularisation theorist followed by post modernity of how religion is not declining but changing. Then make sure you do a paragraph on secularisation in the USA followed by a critism of existential security

Could someone please tell me the final predictions for belief?... mainly for the 33 marker


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I know India isn't in Europe but could you include Nandra and that she found that Hindus were becoming more religious??

anyone else doing Beliefs in Society?

Thats an anti-secualrisation view, saying that religion actually made them wealthier and thus more religious

Yes I can. It was something like "assess the contribution of feminism to our understanding of society"