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December 1958 5-a-day

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December 1958

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1958Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  2. 2nd December 1958What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  3. 3rd December 1958What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  4. 4th December 1958Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  5. 5th December 1958Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  6. 6th December 1958Define globalisation.
  7. 7th December 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.
  8. 8th December 1958Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  9. 9th December 1958What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  10. 10th December 1958What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  11. 11th December 1958Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  12. 12th December 1958Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  13. 13th December 1958Define 'forced marriage'.
  14. 14th December 1958Define 'cohabitation'.
  15. 15th December 1958According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  16. 16th December 1958Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  17. 17th December 1958What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  18. 18th December 1958What is primary socialisation?
  19. 19th December 1958Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  20. 20th December 1958Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  21. 21st December 1958Define social mobility.
  22. 22nd December 1958Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  23. 23rd December 1958What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  24. 24th December 1958Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  25. 25th December 1958What is Sure Start?
  26. 26th December 1958What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  27. 27th December 1958Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  28. 28th December 1958Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  29. 29th December 1958Describe the allowance system.
  30. 30th December 1958Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  31. 31st December 1958Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.