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October 1959 5-a-day

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October 1959

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1959Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  2. 2nd October 1959What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  3. 3rd October 1959Define 'forced marriage'.
  4. 4th October 1959Define 'cohabitation'.
  5. 5th October 1959According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  6. 6th October 1959Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  7. 7th October 1959What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  8. 8th October 1959A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  9. 9th October 1959Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  10. 10th October 1959Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  11. 11th October 1959What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  12. 12th October 1959Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  13. 13th October 1959What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  14. 14th October 1959Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  15. 15th October 1959What is compensatory education?
  16. 16th October 1959What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  17. 17th October 1959Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  18. 18th October 1959Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  19. 19th October 1959Describe the allowance system.
  20. 20th October 1959Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  21. 21st October 1959Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  22. 22nd October 1959Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  23. 23rd October 1959Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  24. 24th October 1959What is the medical model of disability?
  25. 25th October 1959Define intragenerational mobility.
  26. 26th October 1959Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  27. 27th October 1959What is 'primary deviance'?
  28. 28th October 1959How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  29. 29th October 1959What is the Pupil Premium?
  30. 30th October 1959What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  31. 31st October 1959Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.