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

Is the sociology of personal life wth couples ?? Like the meanings attached to who controls money etc

My teacher also predicts demography and they were spot on with the education ones even the method for methods in context was one my teacher kept telling us to focus on
Yeah i do think the paper wont be a nice one because the ed one was so good

Er, no.
Sociology of personal life is the one that is like a post modernist/interactionist view. Bottom up approach.It critiques the other structural theories as being too deterministic and ignoring family diversity

Key theorists -

Smart (2007):
• blood isn't thicker than water
• prefers term 'personal life' rather than family as its more neutral and flexible, avoids idea of so-called 'ideal' family model
• includes a wide range of structures such as LATs, families created by Reproductive Technologies like donor conception, fictive kin, reconstituted, same-sex, pets, friends, social media, lone-parents etc.

Hareven (2000):Life course might affect the structure and dynamics of family life in a number of ways (e.g. Child might experience nuclear family from childhood to adolescence but a lone-parent after because his parents might separate or divorce)

Pahl and Spencer (2001):The concept of 'family' is no longer useful to describe personal relationships in the 21st century
• prefer term 'personal communities' - made up of a combination of relatives and fictive kin

Er, yes?

The PLP does look at couples. The individual you quoted was correct because Smart talks about homosexual couples not seeing the control of money as meaning either equality or inequality in the relationship as part of the PLP, relating to couples decision-making.

Ah interesting - didn't pick that one up, my apologies!
I have Pahl and Vogler on decision making so I guess I didn't pick up any others - unless we mean the same thing but i didn't know that personal life covered decision making.

hi, I've had a look at some past papers and I wondered if there were any chances that Industrialisation - history of the family could be on the paper? there was no mentions of it on the aqa papers papers but i've got a chunk of notes to revise for it but it seems weird it hasn't been on any papers yet... kind of worried

I'm so worried about this paper too! I have a feeling it isn't going to be a nice one...do you mean like how industrialisation has created need for nuclear fam with geo and soc mobility etc??

Does anyone have an tips or a method to use to for the research methods questions?


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Ugh I'm like cryin inside lmao. I still need to revise Demography, Marriage/Divorce/Family Diversity, Childhood, Domestic Labour/Power Relationships in the family. Oh and research methods. Brb while I sCREAM

One question - is the research methods questions always discussing the strengths and weaknesses of something?

hi
for research methods we were told to do:

introduction - reword question, define any key terms, e.g. say group interviews were used in the question - define that

PETPETPET paragraphs - basically practical, ethical, & theoretical advantages & disadvantages of the method, answer question, link to the item, add relevant sociologist studies, maybe compare studies. (also u need to link to the item @ least x3 times or more to get more marks

& a conclusion

also our teacher said you need to include a lot of sociologists in 20 mark questions to get anywhere near full marks otherwise you won't get any more than 6 marks for it.

yeah, & like urbanisation, especially geo & social mobility its never been on any past papers before
there's also a huge chunk on Young & Willmot as well...
I've been trying to revise some of the studies & I really hope demography isn't on the paper, despite there being less sociologists for section, just a lot of facts...
how are you feeling about research methods btw? I quite liked the question for the education one

Yeah i loved the ed paper apart from the ridiculous timing!! Dreading this one though would love if research methods were questionnaires👌