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May 1959 5-a-day

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May 1959

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st May 1959What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  2. 2nd May 1959How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  3. 3rd May 1959Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  4. 4th May 1959Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  5. 5th May 1959Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  6. 6th May 1959State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  7. 7th May 1959Define culture.
  8. 8th May 1959Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  9. 9th May 1959What is the medical model of disability?
  10. 10th May 1959Define intragenerational mobility.
  11. 11th May 1959What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  12. 12th May 1959Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  13. 13th May 1959What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  14. 14th May 1959What is the Pupil Premium?
  15. 15th May 1959What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  16. 16th May 1959How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  17. 17th May 1959According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  18. 18th May 1959Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  19. 19th May 1959Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  20. 20th May 1959What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  21. 21st May 1959Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  22. 22nd May 1959Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  23. 23rd May 1959Define globalisation.
  24. 24th May 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.
  25. 25th May 1959State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  26. 26th May 1959What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  27. 27th May 1959What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  28. 28th May 1959Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  29. 29th May 1959Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  30. 30th May 1959How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  31. 31st May 1959What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?