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December 1957 5-a-day

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December 1957

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1957Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  2. 2nd December 1957Describe the allowance system.
  3. 3rd December 1957Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  4. 4th December 1957Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  5. 5th December 1957A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  6. 6th December 1957Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  7. 7th December 1957Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  8. 8th December 1957What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  9. 9th December 1957Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  10. 10th December 1957What is 'primary deviance'?
  11. 11th December 1957How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  12. 12th December 1957What is compensatory education?
  13. 13th December 1957What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  14. 14th December 1957Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  15. 15th December 1957Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  16. 16th December 1957Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  17. 17th December 1957What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  18. 18th December 1957What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  19. 19th December 1957Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  20. 20th December 1957Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  21. 21st December 1957What is the medical model of disability?
  22. 22nd December 1957Define intragenerational mobility.
  23. 23rd December 1957According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  24. 24th December 1957According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  25. 25th December 1957Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  26. 26th December 1957What is the Pupil Premium?
  27. 27th December 1957What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  28. 28th December 1957How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  29. 29th December 1957Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  30. 30th December 1957Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  31. 31st December 1957Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?