Sociol AQA A2 Unit 4 Workbook Answers
WORKBOOK ANSWERS AQA A2 Sociology Unit 4 Crime and Deviance with Theory and Methods
This Answers book provides suggestions for some of the possible answers that might be given for the questions asked in the workbook. They are not exhaustive and other answers may be acceptable, but they are intended as a guide to give teachers and students feedback. The student responses for the longer essay-style questions are intended to give some idea about how the exam questions might be answered. The examiner comments (underlined text) have been added to give you some sense of what is rewarded in the exam and which areas can be developed. Again, these are not the only ways to answer such questions but they can be treated as one way of approaching questions of these types.
Section A Crime and deviance
Topic 1 Theories of crime, deviance, social order and social control Functionalism
1 Behaviour that differs from the normal, incurs disapproval, and is subject to some form of sanction.
2 Behaviour that contradicts consensus norms and values. (The approach of seeing deviance in normative terms is shared by functionalists and the New Right.)
3 He meant that in any society with rules there will be people who break them. A deviance-free society is therefore impossible.
4 ‘Anomie’ literally means ‘normlessness’ but here Durkheim meant a state where large numbers of people are insufficiently integrated into society’s norms and values.
5 Durkheim regarded small instances of deviance as functional because deviant people can be ahead of their time and bring about positive social change (e.g. suffragettes); deviance can act as a marker of the boundaries of appropriate behaviour; and deviance can sometimes promote social cohesion by binding people together in moral outrage against it.
6 Hirschi’s premise was that most criminologists were approaching the problem from the wrong angle. Instead of asking why people commit crime, he asked why people are so conformist. His answer lay in the
This Answers book provides suggestions for some of the possible answers that might be given for the questions asked in the workbook. They are not exhaustive and other answers may be acceptable, but they are intended as a guide to give teachers and students feedback. The student responses for the longer essay-style questions are intended to give some idea about how the exam questions might be answered. The examiner comments (underlined text) have been added to give you some sense of what is rewarded in the exam and which areas can be developed. Again, these are not the only ways to answer such questions but they can be treated as one way of approaching questions of these types.
Section A Crime and deviance
Topic 1 Theories of crime, deviance, social order and social control Functionalism
1 Behaviour that differs from the normal, incurs disapproval, and is subject to some form of sanction.
2 Behaviour that contradicts consensus norms and values. (The approach of seeing deviance in normative terms is shared by functionalists and the New Right.)
3 He meant that in any society with rules there will be people who break them. A deviance-free society is therefore impossible.
4 ‘Anomie’ literally means ‘normlessness’ but here Durkheim meant a state where large numbers of people are insufficiently integrated into society’s norms and values.
5 Durkheim regarded small instances of deviance as functional because deviant people can be ahead of their time and bring about positive social change (e.g. suffragettes); deviance can act as a marker of the boundaries of appropriate behaviour; and deviance can sometimes promote social cohesion by binding people together in moral outrage against it.
6 Hirschi’s premise was that most criminologists were approaching the problem from the wrong angle. Instead of asking why people commit crime, he asked why people are so conformist. His answer lay in the