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August 1953

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  1. 1st August 1953Define 'forced marriage'.
  2. 2nd August 1953Define 'cohabitation'.
  3. 3rd August 1953According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  4. 4th August 1953Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  5. 5th August 1953What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  6. 6th August 1953What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  7. 7th August 1953Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  8. 8th August 1953What is the medical model of disability?
  9. 9th August 1953Define intragenerational mobility.
  10. 10th August 1953Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  11. 11th August 1953What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  12. 12th August 1953Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  13. 13th August 1953What is the Pupil Premium?
  14. 14th August 1953What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  15. 15th August 1953Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  16. 16th August 1953Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  17. 17th August 1953Describe the allowance system.
  18. 18th August 1953Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  19. 19th August 1953Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  20. 20th August 1953A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  21. 21st August 1953Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  22. 22nd August 1953Define globalisation.
  23. 23rd August 1953Give one reason why absolute mobility in the UK rose during the 20th century even without the class system becoming much more open in relative terms.
  24. 24th August 1953Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  25. 25th August 1953What is 'primary deviance'?
  26. 26th August 1953How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  27. 27th August 1953Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  28. 28th August 1953Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  29. 29th August 1953Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  30. 30th August 1953Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  31. 31st August 1953Name Pahl's four systems of money management.