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December 1956 5-a-day

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December 1956

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1956How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  2. 2nd December 1956Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  3. 3rd December 1956Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  4. 4th December 1956Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  5. 5th December 1956State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  6. 6th December 1956Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  7. 7th December 1956Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  8. 8th December 1956What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  9. 9th December 1956Define intergenerational mobility.
  10. 10th December 1956What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  11. 11th December 1956Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  12. 12th December 1956What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  13. 13th December 1956What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  14. 14th December 1956What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  15. 15th December 1956How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  16. 16th December 1956According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  17. 17th December 1956Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  18. 18th December 1956Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  19. 19th December 1956What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  20. 20th December 1956What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  21. 21st December 1956Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  22. 22nd December 1956What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  23. 23rd December 1956What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  24. 24th December 1956State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  25. 25th December 1956What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  26. 26th December 1956What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  27. 27th December 1956Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  28. 28th December 1956What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  29. 29th December 1956How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  30. 30th December 1956What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  31. 31st December 1956What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?