HEY YALL!
Omg, i'm blogging after ages. Wait, SOMEONE'S blogging after ages. Besides Ben's very interesting post on MRT lines. Singapore's gonna look cool when that's done (: Anyway, thought i'd post up the INTSOC tips Dr. Juliet gave us today. Do take note if you didn't this morning during lecture. CoughKenncough. Lol. Oh and do rmb to collect your INTSOC essays back on the 12th of Feb.
INTSOC EXAM ON 26TH FEB 2009.
The exam will be based on case studies and the sociological perspectives. She encourages us to look at the mark allocation to know how much we got to write per question, i.e. 2 points for 2 marks. We should spend an hour on Section A doing 4 questions, and an hour on Section B doing 2 more.
Terms and what they mean:
List - you may write in point form.
Describe/ explain - provide details.
Distinction - compare and contrast.
Apply - use sociological perspectives to answer.
Evaluate - give your opinions?
Now, the individual chapters. Just listing the key points:
Chapter 1 - Theoretical perspectives and some examples, macro and micro sociology.
Chapter 2 - Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism are impt. Read up the boxes on cultural diversity, textbook pages 274 and 275.
Chapter 3 - Socialisation into gender, agents of socialisation and description of the impact. Explain resocialisation.
Chapter 4 - Status inconsistency, face-saving behaviour, how macro and micro sociological analysis help us to understand social life and human behaviour, the Saints and Roughnecks and explain the social construction of reality.
Chapter 6 - Control theory, functionalist perspective of deviance, apply the conflict perspective of deviance and critic of the medicalisation of deviance.
Chapter 8 - Compare how Karl Marx and Max Weber analyse social class and describe the sociological models of social class.
Chapter 9 - Debate the significance of race for the African Americans.
Chapter 10 - Compare and contrast the functionalist and conflict perspective on aging. For the functionalist perspective, focus on why retirement is beneficial and theories which stress how individuals adjust positively. For the conflict perspective, focus on power, competition, disequilibirum and change.
Chapter 13 - Describe and apply key concepts in the funtionalist, conflict and symbolic interactionist perspective of education. For religion, refer to the announcement posted on 27th Oct 2008, first and second paragraphs.
Chapter 15 - Describe how propaganda influences people through the mass media.
This was the best i could note. Hope it was of some use. If you have anything to add or even remove, do re-post or leave a tag aite (: Thanks. Tc yall. All the best for our last assignment, OB! And then mug mug mug. We're all in this together...
Love,
Ange.
