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Can anyone tel me the questions which came up for Jan 2008 Crime and Deviance paper? questions 1 2 and 3! cheers!
Reply 101
ok guys since we are doing this..

I haven't had my results explained to me ever
anyway, I retook yr12 because I did shockingly lol I skipped school all the time and was ill etc etc so retook to improve grades

for sociology in 2006 I got

Educ/Wealth/Pov/Welfare/Work/Leisure [105]- 46 which is an E :|
Sociological Methods (written) [90]- 48 which is a D :|
Fam/Households/Health/Mass Media [105]- 82 which is a B :smile:

So I retook the year and in 2007 I got

Educ/Wealth/Pov/Welfare/Work/Leisure [105]- 97 which is an A :biggrin:
Sociological Methods {written) [90]- 79 which is an A :biggrin:
And I didn't retake family as I already had the B from 2006.

edit- Ooops, forgot Theory & Methods which I took in Jan! :p:
I just checked and I got 67, which is a B :biggrin: But it doesn't say what is it out of.


Um. So NOW its not 258 its 325? That's not so great is it- or is it ok?

I did religion on Thursday and have c&d next week....how many points do I need to get an A/B? What grades do I need for both of the papers?

This is confusing lol :p:
Reply 102
Well...Idk. Maybe as a 12 mark? It is possible that it will be the mega one.

Its a topic where you can't really make it up...you'll need to know a little about fatalistic, altruistic, coroners bias etc etc in order to make links.

All my teacher said was if you don't revise suicide I'll kill you all :p:!
LMAOO i did 2 hours of suicide yday, i'm and i still did it. Revised Durkheims study - comparitive method, took stats from various european counties, based them on the size of the population in which they occured.

Then did social integration - way people are bound together

Under - Egoistic - Catholics and Protestants
Over - Altruistic - Suicide bombers - people lose their individulim

Social Reg - Unwritten rules of behaviour - socialisation - norms

Anomic - Pop stars over time - Wall street crash in 1929
Fatalistic - Slaves, wives are barren


Durkheim based his study on
society is a social fact
there are social facts within different societies
social facts are social forces
social forces may influence people to take their lives
social facts are things
social facts are scientific
social facts are quantitifable
each society has its own temprament, unchaingable because of periodic beliefs with different societies.

durkheim argued society was an external force, which restricted members and their behaviour. Even though people go and out of society, society will always remain the same. They adapt to social rules, and externally are contrained by social facts.

He argued that their are social facts within society, and each society has its own temprament, he argued that suicide rates would remain the same over a long period of time only if social forces within that society remains unchangable.

He wanted to prove his idea of suicide being a social fact caused by social forces, and wanted to prove it by taking out a scientific study in various countries over a long period of time. For example sucide rates in italy (1866 - 70) was 30, (1871-75) 35 and in (1874 - 78) was 38. Which he then used his comparitve method to compare different countries rates.

He was adament of suicide and though it was the most individual act any one could take "action of the inidividual". Instead of looking at individuals motives he wanted to look at societies, social forces which influence.

When he found his statistics he wanted to examine the social forces in different societies that influence.


Is there anything else i need to know in terms of positivism? need to do interp yet
....anyyyy oneee..... ?
That's all I know. Top notch :smile:
Need to throough my notes over the four full days i have starting from tomorrow. Itss tooo muchhhh, but yeah a wkd topic though
omg you've an awful lot on Durkheim!! You'd probably need to cut that down i think? coz you need to talk about Douglas and Atkinson also? and taylor. He talks about using both sides. Remember that timing is also an imperative part of the test aswell. My teacher told me to spend
-an hour on the 40 mark
-20 minutes on the 12 mark
-and 10 minutes on the 8 mark.

Btw guys, here are the grade boundaries :
A: 480 UMS points
B: 420
C: 360
D: 300
E: 240

hope this helps!

I think i'm sitting on 374 right now so i'm on a C without doing crime and deviance. I need to get 108/120 in it to get my A - not likely :frown:
i spent 5 minutes maybe even less on the 8 mark on thursday's religion paper, because i was very familiar with that particular question and this enabled me to do it in that time.

I think with me is i'am wkd at the content, just need to work on my exam technique
I'm on 461 atm.

Just gotta get 19... then I get an A. But it could go completely wrong.
Does anyone have any past papers for this? i have the ones from 2005 onwards but i need the ones from 2001-2004. any response would be amazing! (:
I couldn't find any.. the AQA website only go back to 2005. Damn them.
Jhawkins
I'm on 461 atm.

Just gotta get 19... then I get an A. But it could go completely wrong.


Holy crap well done!!

lol
mate, you would have to be a complete idiot to not get an A. and from the fact your on 461 i think its clear to say your not an idiot, congratulations on the A!
Jhawkins
I couldn't find any.. the AQA website only go back to 2005. Damn them.


i think they used to have the 2004 ones up until recently. For some reason they've taken them down. ****ers. lol.
[QUOTE='charlie[]']mate, you would have to be a complete idiot to not get an A. and from the fact your on 461 i think its clear to say your not an idiot, congratulations on the A!

Lol.. we'll see. I haven't had a teacher since March (and we started it in January). So we've had to self-teach... as we only got a cover teacher on rare occasions.
Reply 116
Please could someone give me a list of what I need to ensure I have revised for Crime and Deviance?
Theories - funtionalism, marxism, feminism, interpretivism, left realism, right realism
gender
ethnicity
suicide
crime statistics - mostly positivism
methodology - positivism vs interactionalism - particpant observation especially linked with crime and deviance
Learn a lot of synoptic links
such as
Education - anti school subcultures - deviant subcultures
Education - good Qualifications - less likely to commit suicide
religion - strict moral behaviour, monopolizes an individuals, less likely to commit crime.
family - single parent families seen as deviant by the judicial system.
family - gender sterotyping primary socialisation - females into the expressive role, less likely to commit crime
Media - Media has an influence whether or not a person commits crime
Health - Women more likely to suffer from schizophrenia, more likely to commit crime as a result of that
this thread is so helpful! apart from my teacher told us its very likely marxism will come up, so i revised it all day and found that it probaly wont :| guttedd but i am confused, someone said it came up in the january paper, but then sum1 else copied the paper onto the thread and it wasnt about marxism :s totally confused!
also im confused about the mark thingys and how you work out how many points you need 2 get?
because in my exams so far ive had A in world sociology, A in education, high B in coursework, and C in Media so i duno how much i need 2 get 2 get an A does any of that make sense lol

also 4 race and crime these may help:
neo marxists - use the study by hall et al on policing the crisis
phenemonlogists - aaron cicourel - negotiation of justice - afro caribbean etc are usually working class, unable to negotiate justice aswell as white upper class
functionalists - merton/anomie and crime - afro caribbeans etc usually from working class and so unable to get success etc
subcultural - cohen and crime --- working class are usually from the ethnic majority etc

if anyone needs more on that be free 2 ask, its about the only thing i have amazing sheets on lol
to give a good prediction of grade and grades needed you needs to post up your ums point for each and not the grade.

O question not sure if this is me being dumb:

Stuart Hall - 'policing the crisis'
Hall et all - 'policing the crisis' what the hell is this hall et all mean and stuff etc.....

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