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September 1958 5-a-day

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September 1958

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st September 1958Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  2. 2nd September 1958What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  3. 3rd September 1958What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  4. 4th September 1958What is the Pupil Premium?
  5. 5th September 1958What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  6. 6th September 1958Define 'forced marriage'.
  7. 7th September 1958Define 'cohabitation'.
  8. 8th September 1958According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  9. 9th September 1958Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  10. 10th September 1958What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  11. 11th September 1958Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  12. 12th September 1958Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  13. 13th September 1958Define globalisation.
  14. 14th September 1958Give one reason why absolute mobility in the UK rose during the 20th century even without the class system becoming much more open in relative terms.
  15. 15th September 1958Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  16. 16th September 1958What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  17. 17th September 1958Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  18. 18th September 1958Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  19. 19th September 1958Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  20. 20th September 1958Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  21. 21st September 1958Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  22. 22nd September 1958Describe the allowance system.
  23. 23rd September 1958Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  24. 24th September 1958Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  25. 25th September 1958Define culture.
  26. 26th September 1958Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  27. 27th September 1958Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  28. 28th September 1958Define social mobility.
  29. 29th September 1958Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  30. 30th September 1958What is 'primary deviance'?