My professional opinion is that the questions are crap, in that it's really only the first one that has any specificity to it. On the other hand, this means you can cut your answers pretty much any way you feel like it.
how the labour market has impacted on contemporary family life - over what time period? Presumaby we're talking about changes in the labour market and changes in family life. Changes in the labour market over about a 30 year period: post-Fordism, increased demands for flexibility, move from industrial to service sector jobs, many involving unsocial hours and low pay and/or part time rather than full time, many filled by women rather than men. Changes in family life - depends on what you think of as 'family', because many 'families' are no longer nuclear families with mummy/daddy/1.9 kids/0.6 labradors plus SUV. So more pressure on women to keep everything together, more childcare issues, and more reliance on a mix of work income and benefits.
compare and contrast two sociological things on poverty (well there is a link to the one above) - what's a 'sociological thing on poverty'? Presumably somewhere in your notes you'll have factors the lecturer thought were important but what's worth contrasting or comparing depends on what they are. How about the cumulative effects of poverty in terms of definitions of what poverty means - you could go for EU type views on social deprivation. Individual family units have fewer resources and the knock-on effect is that 'social capital' - the ability of communities to function - is then also affected.
compare and contrast two sociological things on family ( another link for both) - this is kind of the same question but starting with families and looking at poverty?
discuss my community and what sort of effect it has on my/our mental health and what we do to take care of ourselves.... (bit rambly but im sure theres a link with the top three) - hmm. Well, one upfront question is what 'community' means - Philip Abrams was one of the key thinkers on this. I guess one of the issues here is loss of community, individualisation, increased stress because communities can't solve the problems of their members, and thus the social causes of some mental health issues.
I'm not really around until late Tuesday night and back to work on Wednesday afternoon, but if you want to talk any of this stuff over or bounce ideas around by all means phone me late night (say after about 11pm anytime up till about 1am) from Tuesday of next week...
how the labour market has impacted on contemporary family life - over what time period? Presumaby we're talking about changes in the labour market and changes in family life. Changes in the labour market over about a 30 year period: post-Fordism, increased demands for flexibility, move from industrial to service sector jobs, many involving unsocial hours and low pay and/or part time rather than full time, many filled by women rather than men. Changes in family life - depends on what you think of as 'family', because many 'families' are no longer nuclear families with mummy/daddy/1.9 kids/0.6 labradors plus SUV. So more pressure on women to keep everything together, more childcare issues, and more reliance on a mix of work income and benefits.
compare and contrast two sociological things on poverty (well there is a link to the one above) - what's a 'sociological thing on poverty'? Presumably somewhere in your notes you'll have factors the lecturer thought were important but what's worth contrasting or comparing depends on what they are. How about the cumulative effects of poverty in terms of definitions of what poverty means - you could go for EU type views on social deprivation. Individual family units have fewer resources and the knock-on effect is that 'social capital' - the ability of communities to function - is then also affected.
compare and contrast two sociological things on family ( another link for both) - this is kind of the same question but starting with families and looking at poverty?
discuss my community and what sort of effect it has on my/our mental health and what we do to take care of ourselves.... (bit rambly but im sure theres a link with the top three) - hmm. Well, one upfront question is what 'community' means - Philip Abrams was one of the key thinkers on this. I guess one of the issues here is loss of community, individualisation, increased stress because communities can't solve the problems of their members, and thus the social causes of some mental health issues.
I'm not really around until late Tuesday night and back to work on Wednesday afternoon, but if you want to talk any of this stuff over or bounce ideas around by all means phone me late night (say after about 11pm anytime up till about 1am) from Tuesday of next week...
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