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January 1959 5-a-day

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January 1959

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1959Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  2. 2nd January 1959Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  3. 3rd January 1959What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  4. 4th January 1959Define intergenerational mobility.
  5. 5th January 1959Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  6. 6th January 1959What is 'primary deviance'?
  7. 7th January 1959How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  8. 8th January 1959What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  9. 9th January 1959What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  10. 10th January 1959Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  11. 11th January 1959Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  12. 12th January 1959Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  13. 13th January 1959What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  14. 14th January 1959What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  15. 15th January 1959Define culture.
  16. 16th January 1959Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  17. 17th January 1959What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  18. 18th January 1959What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  19. 19th January 1959According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  20. 20th January 1959According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  21. 21st January 1959Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  22. 22nd January 1959Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  23. 23rd January 1959What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  24. 24th January 1959How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  25. 25th January 1959Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  26. 26th January 1959Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  27. 27th January 1959Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  28. 28th January 1959State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  29. 29th January 1959Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  30. 30th January 1959Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  31. 31st January 1959Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.