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August 1958 5-a-day

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August 1958

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st August 1958Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  2. 2nd August 1958What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  3. 3rd August 1958What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  4. 4th August 1958State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  5. 5th August 1958What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  6. 6th August 1958What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  7. 7th August 1958Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  8. 8th August 1958What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  9. 9th August 1958How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  10. 10th August 1958What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  11. 11th August 1958What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  12. 12th August 1958What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  13. 13th August 1958Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  14. 14th August 1958Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  15. 15th August 1958Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  16. 16th August 1958Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  17. 17th August 1958What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  18. 18th August 1958What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  19. 19th August 1958What is 'secondary deviance'?
  20. 20th August 1958Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  21. 21st August 1958What is compensatory education?
  22. 22nd August 1958What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  23. 23rd August 1958Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  24. 24th August 1958What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  25. 25th August 1958Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  26. 26th August 1958What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  27. 27th August 1958What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  28. 28th August 1958What is primary socialisation?
  29. 29th August 1958Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  30. 30th August 1958What is the medical model of disability?
  31. 31st August 1958Define intragenerational mobility.