Aqa sociology resit 2016

I think it went well!

All the short mark questions were great and simple

The 24 marker on couples was a god-send.

However, the 24 markers on diversity caught me off guard And i only had about 15 minutes left when i started it so i had no time to plan making my essay a bit jumbled up.

WHY IS THE EXAM ONLY AN HOUR LONG FFSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Questions in case anyone forgot:

1. Define what is meant by the term 'dependency ratio'. (2)
2. Give two explanations for why lone-parent families are headed by women (4)
3. Give three reasons for the fall in death rate since the 1900s (6)
4. Examine the view that couples' roles and relationships are becoming more equal today. (24)
5. Using Item 2B, assess the view that traditional family functions are being undermined by family diversity (24)

My paragraphs were:

- men and women both work - symmetrical family - young and willmott so do equal amounts of house work and paid work and also spend their leisure time together

-then in my second paragraph I critisised young and willmott view by Oakley and edgells studies. Saying how women still do most of housework and child care

-i then spoke about decesion making and how women make more decesions now but they tend to be minimal ones e.g. what to get for shopping, even though men make big decesions such as about cars, houses etc. I used edgells study to back this up.

-i then did a paragraph on emotional work and dumncomb and Marsden study on it and how men are still ignorant to emotional duties within a family/couple.

Would this answer be any good?

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You lot have jumped them gun
The Qu was examine the factors to the extent of it being more equal
My teacher said it was kinda a trick question...you had to look for factors such as genre scripts, women working, labour saving devices etc....that's the factors
I failed anyways so ah well lol

Yeah, hopefully it was enough.

What did you talk about for the second Q? I nearly ran out of time!

What do you want to get in your resit?

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Were my factors on the previous page ok then? I kept linking it to how it made relationships and roles more equal when compared to the past.

This year's paper really was confusing. Last year's and the previous year's were easier. Let's hope this means they'll be easier on education then.


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Do you have god like memory; how did you remember all that haha.

So after reading numerous threads about how everyone answer the questions I have realised a few things:

1) Defo got 2 marker
2) I was stumped on the single-mothers one
3) Death rate question was easy
4) I completely answer the roles and relationships one wrong, I thought 'factors' and spoke about how age, income and social class could effect power differences in a relationship (kill me)
5) Traditional values I missed too much out, I mentioned the funcitonalist functions of reproduction and how gay couples can't do that, how cohabiting undermines marriage, single parents being the cause of social decay as charles murray said, then squeezing in Postmodernist argument of how people dip in and out of families (BUT I WROTE HOW 'PAHL' SAID THAT, HE WAS THE DUAL-EARNING STUDY BLOKE KILL ME PLEASE NOW, IT WAS BECK AND THE 'NEGOTIATED FAMILY')

In conclusion:

I have almost certainly not improved on my paper 1 D from last year, I'm not retaking Paper 2 which I got a B in so my AS level grade is still a C. All hope rests on getting A*s in the Unit 3 and 4 exam so I can get a B and go to Uni.

I also found this:

[video]http://captiongenerator.com/89907/Hitler-reacts-to-AS-Sociology-Unit-1-Retake[/video]

what are predictions for unit 2?

We got the exact same mark last year and I also need a B!

I never knew 2 A*s where needed for a B tho


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Well I'm not sure, just guessing really. I expect two As could push it up, depends how high the B in unit 2 is and how low the unit 1 mark is. Could just about.

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