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April 1956 5-a-day

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April 1956

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1956Define intergenerational mobility.
  2. 2nd April 1956Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  3. 3rd April 1956What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  4. 4th April 1956What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  5. 5th April 1956What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  6. 6th April 1956What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  7. 7th April 1956Define 'forced marriage'.
  8. 8th April 1956Define 'cohabitation'.
  9. 9th April 1956According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  10. 10th April 1956Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  11. 11th April 1956What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  12. 12th April 1956Define culture.
  13. 13th April 1956Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  14. 14th April 1956What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  15. 15th April 1956What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  16. 16th April 1956Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  17. 17th April 1956What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  18. 18th April 1956Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  19. 19th April 1956Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  20. 20th April 1956What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  21. 21st April 1956Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  22. 22nd April 1956Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  23. 23rd April 1956Describe the allowance system.
  24. 24th April 1956Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  25. 25th April 1956Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  26. 26th April 1956Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  27. 27th April 1956Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  28. 28th April 1956Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  29. 29th April 1956What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  30. 30th April 1956Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.