G672 – EXAM STRUCTURE AND TIMING
Unit G672: Topics in socialisation, culture and identity
There are four areas to revise for this exam:
- Key concepts and key trends within the family
- The role of the family in society
- Family diversity
- Roles, responsibilities and relationships within the family
Instructions: Complete allquestions on Option 1 - SOCIOLOGY OF THE FAMILY – answer them all (1 a and b, 2 a and b)
Question number and assessment objective (skills) / Out of / Time spent on in minutes / Examples of questionsa. questions (there will be two of these)
AO1 –out of 17- Knowledge and understanding. / 17 / 15mins per a question(there will be two of these) / Jan 2009:
Identify and explain two reasons for the increase in cohabitation in the contemporary UK (17)
Identify and explain two ways in which an aging population affects family life (17)
Jan 2010:
- Identify and explain two reasons for the decline in marriage over the last 30 years (17).
- Identify and explain twocharacteristics of the nuclear family. (17)
- Identify and explain two reasons for the increase in divorce over the last 30 years(17).
- Identify and explain two types of family diversity(17).
- Identify and explain two reasons for the increase in single-person households over the past
- 30 years.(17)
- Identify and explain twoways in which extended families are important in the contemporary UK (17)
- Identify and explain two ways in which demographic changes impact on family life (17).
- Identify and explain two reasons for the growth in single-parent families in the contemporary UK (17)
Identify and explain two ways in which families vary according to ethnicity. (17)
Identify and explain two reasons why family size has decreased (17)
June 2012:
- Identify and explain two functions of the family (17)
- Identify and explain two reasons why the marriage rate has decline in the contemporary UK (17)
- Identify and explain two reasons for the high divorces rate in the comtemporary UK (17).
- Identify and explain two ways in which roles between men and women in the family have become more equal. (17)
b. questions(there will be two of these)
AO1 out of 10 - Knowledge and understanding.
AO2a out of 13- Demonstration of skills of interpretation and application.
AO2b: out of 10 Evaluation & Analysis / 33 / 30 mins per b question (there will be two of these) / Jan 2009:
- Outline and evaluate feminist views of relationships between men and women in family life (33)
- Outline and evaluate the view that the family is characterised by diversity in the contemporary UK(33).
Outline and evaluate the view that relationships between parents and children have changed in the last 30 years (33).
Outline and evaluate postmodern views on family diversity. (33)
June 2010:
- Outline and evaluatefunctionalist views of the role of the family in society.(33)
- Outline and evaluate the view that relationships between men and women in the family havebecome more equal.(33)
- Outline and evaluatesociological views on the role of the family in society.(33)
- Outline and evaluate the view that roles within the family have changed in recent years.(33)
- Outline and evaluate sociological views of family diversity (33)
- Outline and evaluate Feminist explanation of relationships within the family (33)
Outline and evaluate the view that the nuclear family plays a negative role in society.(33)
Outline and evaluate the view that relationships between parents and children are changing.(33)
June 2012:
Outline and evaluate sociological explanation of the roles of men and women within the family (33)
Outline and evaluate the view that families in the UK are increasingly diverse (33).
Jan 2013:
- Outline and evaluate the New Right views on family diversity (33)
- Outline and evaluation the view that the role fo the family in society is toe serve the interests of the ruling class (33)
Answer all questions on the family / 17+33+
17+33=
100 marks / Total – 90mins/ 1 hr 30
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