1. Helping to Create a Coherent Essay Structure
Themes
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Helping to Create a Coherent Essay Structure

2. Themes and Directives Helping to Create a Coherent Essay Structure
“Outline and Access Interactionist Explanations of Crime and Deviance”
Make a Plan…
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A practice essay question appears automatically.
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Make a Plan by identifying Key Themes in the question and answer the question by applying PEEL to each Theme.
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Identify Key Themes
Apply PEEL
Helping to Create a Coherent Essay Structure

3. Theme 1 Theme 2 Theme 3 Conclusion Introduction Point Explain Evaluate
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Theme Screen
This screen introduces the principle of Themes as an organisational tool and the PEEL paragraph points that can be associated with each Theme.
The screen is blank except for an Introduction box – if you want your students to start their essay with an Introductory paragraph you can briefly explain its purpose and function. If you don’t simply ignore this box…
Click anywhere on the screen to reveal the Themes.
Click to reveal each of the PEEL points in turn for Theme 1.
Once all PEEL points are revealed a further click reveals further possible PEEL points for the remaining Themes.
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If you want to develop the idea of Themes further, click Theme 1.
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4. Theme 1 Theme 2 Theme 3 Conclusion Introduction Point Explain Evaluate
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Theme Screen
This screen introduces the principle of Themes as an organisational tool and the PEEL paragraph points that can be associated with each Theme.
The screen is blank except for an Introduction box – if you want your students to start their essay with an Introductory paragraph you can briefly explain its purpose and function. If you don’t simply ignore this box…
Click anywhere on the screen to reveal the Themes.
Click to reveal each of the PEEL points in turn for Theme 1.
Once all PEEL points are revealed a further click reveals further possible PEEL points for the remaining Themes.
If you want to end the presentation at this point, click the ShortCutstv logo or the Conclusion button.
If you want to develop the idea of Themes further, click Theme 1.
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5. Social Construction Point Explain Evaluate Link Theme and Paragraph
Start by stating the point you’re going to discuss. In this case the paragraph focuses on the idea of crime and deviance as social constructions.
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Continue by explaining why this point is important and use sociological examples to support and illustrate your argument.
Evaluate
Critically assess (make criticisms, draw conclusions, etc.) what you’ve explained. Use examples, where necessary, to support the evaluation.
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Link this paragraph to the next.
For example, note that if crime is socially constructed, power is an important variable to discuss.
Theme and PEEL screen
Click each of the PEEL points to reveal how each is used to build a paragraph, focused on the Theme to cover a range of Assessment Objectives.
The information on this screen gives a general indication of what kinds of things to cover under each PEEL heading.
If you want to illustrate this further click “Social Construction”.
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Theme and Paragraph

6. “Outline and Access Interactionist Explanations of Crime and Deviance”
Theme 1: Social Construction
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One of the key ideas of interactionist explanations of crime (the violation of a legal norm) and deviance (norm violation) is that both are socially constructed.
This is a crucial observation because it changes how we need to think about crime and deviance. We can’t, for example, explain crime in terms of the
qualities or characteristics of criminals because the same act – such as theft or some minor act of deviance – may be interpreted differently in different societies or at different times.
So if deviance is not, as Becker argues “a quality of what someone does” interactionists say we must explain it in terms of how people react to what someone does.
Although not essential, including this simple observation shows you know the difference between crime and deviance. It may also get you marks for knowledge.
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This means that deviance is a relative concept, one that differs from society to society (in America it’s legal to drink alcohol in a bar if you are over 21; in Saudi Arabia this is a crime) and in the same society at different times (homosexuality, for example, was illegal in England until 1967). In other words, as Becker argues, if “Deviance is in the eye of the beholder” it follows that deviance cannot simply be explained in terms of what someone does.
Although evaluation is often seen as involving criticism, it doesn’t have to be. The ability to draw logical conclusions, for example, is an important form of evaluation you shouldn’t overlook.
Worked Paragraph Screen
This screen gives students an idea of how PEEL can be used in relation to a specific question to build a paragraph that covers all the Assessment Objectives.
Clicking each PEEL button reveals the example “essay text”.
The final text box (“Link”) would, in the context of this essay, move the student on to the next Theme (“Power”) and set of related PEEL paragraphs (but that’s not included in this Presentation because by this stage your students should be getting the picture…).
Clicking the blue hyperlinks within each piece of text reveals some further information about the highlighted link. Click the information box to hide it again.
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Use sociological research to lend weight and authority to your argument.
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To develop this idea further, we need to look at how interactionists understand and apply the concept of power.

7. Social Construction Labelling Conclusion Introduction Point Explain
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Power Screen
This final screen displays the complete list of possible themes.
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