6 mark scheme a level sociology 71923r june 2018

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MARK SCHEME – A-LEVEL SOCIOLOGY – 7192/3R – JUNE 2018
Evaluation will take the form of juxtaposition of competing positions or one to two
isolated stated points. Analysis will be limited, with answers tending towards the
descriptive.
7−12 Answers in this band will show limited undeveloped knowledge, e.g. two to three
insubstantial points about moral panics. Understands only limited aspects of the
question; simplistic understanding of the presented material.
Limited application of suitable material, and/or material often at a tangent to the
demands of the question, e.g. accounts of theories/studies of crime with little
reference to the media.
Very limited or no evaluation. Attempts at analysis, if any, are thin and disjointed.
1−6 Answers in this band will show very limited knowledge, e.g. one to two very
insubstantial points about crime and deviance in general. Very little/no
understanding of the question and of the presented material.
Significant errors and/or omissions in application of material.
No analysis or evaluation.
0 No relevant points.
Indicative Content
Concepts and issues such as the following may appear: over-representation; the dramatic fallacy;
the age fallacy; the social construction/manufacture of news; news values; copycat crime; catharsis;
relative deprivation; cultural inclusion; economic exclusion; cultural criminology; media-saturated
society/mediascape; commodification of crime; consumption; modernity; late/post-modernity; moral
entrepreneurs; deviance amplification spiral; societal reaction; folk devils; moral panics; distortion
and exaggeration; prediction; symbolisation; stigmatisation; marginalisation; cyber-crime; digital
surveillance/control.
Sources may include the following or other relevant ones : Becker; S. Cohen; Cohen and
Young; Ditton and Duffy; Felson; Fenwick and Hayward; Hall et al; Hayward and Young; Jewkes;
Lea and Young; McRobbie and Thornton; Schramm; Soothill and Walby; Surette; Thomas and
Loader; J. Young.
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MARK SCHEME – A-LEVEL SOCIOLOGY – 7192/3R – JUNE 2018
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05 Outline and explain two disadvantages of using laboratory experiments in
sociological research.
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Marks Level Descriptors
8−10
Answers in this band will show very good knowledge and understanding of two
disadvantages of using laboratory experiments in sociological research.
There will be two applications of relevant material, e.g. laboratory experiments are
conducted in an artificial rather than a naturalistic setting so as to give the
researcher control over the variables to be tested; practical and financial constraints
mean laboratory experiments are often small in scale and of limited duration.
There will be appropriate analysis, e.g. the artificiality of the setting undermines
validity because of the Hawthorne effect: participants respond to the experimental
situation/researcher rather than to the experimental stimuli; short, small-scale
laboratory experiments are not suited to investigating the effects of large-scale
social structures or long-term historical processes.