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October 1956 5-a-day

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October 1956

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1956What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  2. 2nd October 1956What is 'secondary deviance'?
  3. 3rd October 1956Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  4. 4th October 1956Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  5. 5th October 1956What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  6. 6th October 1956Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  7. 7th October 1956What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  8. 8th October 1956Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  9. 9th October 1956What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  10. 10th October 1956What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  11. 11th October 1956Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  12. 12th October 1956Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  13. 13th October 1956Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  14. 14th October 1956What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  15. 15th October 1956Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  16. 16th October 1956What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  17. 17th October 1956What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  18. 18th October 1956What is compensatory education?
  19. 19th October 1956What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  20. 20th October 1956Define 'forced marriage'.
  21. 21st October 1956Define 'cohabitation'.
  22. 22nd October 1956According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  23. 23rd October 1956Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  24. 24th October 1956What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  25. 25th October 1956What is primary socialisation?
  26. 26th October 1956Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  27. 27th October 1956What is the medical model of disability?
  28. 28th October 1956Define intragenerational mobility.
  29. 29th October 1956Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  30. 30th October 1956What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  31. 31st October 1956Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.