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November 1959 5-a-day

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November 1959

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1959Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  2. 2nd November 1959Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  3. 3rd November 1959What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  4. 4th November 1959What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  5. 5th November 1959Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  6. 6th November 1959Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  7. 7th November 1959Define globalisation.
  8. 8th November 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.
  9. 9th November 1959According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  10. 10th November 1959According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  11. 11th November 1959Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  12. 12th November 1959Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  13. 13th November 1959Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  14. 14th November 1959How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  15. 15th November 1959Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  16. 16th November 1959Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  17. 17th November 1959Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  18. 18th November 1959State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  19. 19th November 1959What is primary socialisation?
  20. 20th November 1959Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  21. 21st November 1959Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  22. 22nd November 1959Define social mobility.
  23. 23rd November 1959What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  24. 24th November 1959Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  25. 25th November 1959What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  26. 26th November 1959What is Sure Start?
  27. 27th November 1959What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  28. 28th November 1959How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  29. 29th November 1959According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  30. 30th November 1959Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?