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June 1953 5-a-day

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June 1953

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  1. 1st June 1953According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  2. 2nd June 1953According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  3. 3rd June 1953Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  4. 4th June 1953Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  5. 5th June 1953Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  6. 6th June 1953How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  7. 7th June 1953Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  8. 8th June 1953Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  9. 9th June 1953Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  10. 10th June 1953State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  11. 11th June 1953What is primary socialisation?
  12. 12th June 1953Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  13. 13th June 1953Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  14. 14th June 1953Define social mobility.
  15. 15th June 1953What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  16. 16th June 1953Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  17. 17th June 1953What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  18. 18th June 1953What is Sure Start?
  19. 19th June 1953What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  20. 20th June 1953How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  21. 21st June 1953According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  22. 22nd June 1953Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  23. 23rd June 1953Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  24. 24th June 1953What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  25. 25th June 1953Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  26. 26th June 1953Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  27. 27th June 1953What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  28. 28th June 1953Define intergenerational mobility.
  29. 29th June 1953State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  30. 30th June 1953What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?