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March 1959 5-a-day

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March 1959

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st March 1959Give 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.
  2. 2nd March 1959What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  3. 3rd March 1959What is 'secondary deviance'?
  4. 4th March 1959Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  5. 5th March 1959Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  6. 6th March 1959Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  7. 7th March 1959Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  8. 8th March 1959What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  9. 9th March 1959Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  10. 10th March 1959What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  11. 11th March 1959What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  12. 12th March 1959Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  13. 13th March 1959Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  14. 14th March 1959Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  15. 15th March 1959Define social mobility.
  16. 16th March 1959Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  17. 17th March 1959What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  18. 18th March 1959What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  19. 19th March 1959What is Sure Start?
  20. 20th March 1959What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  21. 21st March 1959Define 'forced marriage'.
  22. 22nd March 1959Define 'cohabitation'.
  23. 23rd March 1959According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  24. 24th March 1959Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  25. 25th March 1959What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  26. 26th March 1959Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  27. 27th March 1959Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  28. 28th March 1959What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  29. 29th March 1959Define intergenerational mobility.
  30. 30th March 1959Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  31. 31st March 1959What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?