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September 1957 5-a-day

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September 1957

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st September 1957What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  2. 2nd September 1957Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  3. 3rd September 1957What is 'primary deviance'?
  4. 4th September 1957How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  5. 5th September 1957Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  6. 6th September 1957What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  7. 7th September 1957Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  8. 8th September 1957Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  9. 9th September 1957Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  10. 10th September 1957What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  11. 11th September 1957What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  12. 12th September 1957Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  13. 13th September 1957Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  14. 14th September 1957Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  15. 15th September 1957What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  16. 16th September 1957According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  17. 17th September 1957According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  18. 18th September 1957Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  19. 19th September 1957What is compensatory education?
  20. 20th September 1957What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  21. 21st September 1957How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  22. 22nd September 1957Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  23. 23rd September 1957Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  24. 24th September 1957Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  25. 25th September 1957State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  26. 26th September 1957What is primary socialisation?
  27. 27th September 1957Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  28. 28th September 1957What is the medical model of disability?
  29. 29th September 1957Define intragenerational mobility.
  30. 30th September 1957What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?