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January 1960 5-a-day

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January 1960

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  1. 1st January 1960Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  2. 2nd January 1960Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  3. 3rd January 1960What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  4. 4th January 1960Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  5. 5th January 1960What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  6. 6th January 1960What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  7. 7th January 1960What is compensatory education?
  8. 8th January 1960What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  9. 9th January 1960Define 'forced marriage'.
  10. 10th January 1960Define 'cohabitation'.
  11. 11th January 1960According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  12. 12th January 1960Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  13. 13th January 1960What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  14. 14th January 1960What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  15. 15th January 1960Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  16. 16th January 1960What is the medical model of disability?
  17. 17th January 1960Define intragenerational mobility.
  18. 18th January 1960Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  19. 19th January 1960What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  20. 20th January 1960Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  21. 21st January 1960What is the Pupil Premium?
  22. 22nd January 1960What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  23. 23rd January 1960Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  24. 24th January 1960Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  25. 25th January 1960Describe the allowance system.
  26. 26th January 1960Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  27. 27th January 1960Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  28. 28th January 1960A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  29. 29th January 1960Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  30. 30th January 1960Define globalisation.
  31. 31st January 1960Give 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.