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August 1960 5-a-day

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August 1960

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  1. 1st August 1960Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  2. 2nd August 1960What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  3. 3rd August 1960Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  4. 4th August 1960What is Sure Start?
  5. 5th August 1960What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  6. 6th August 1960Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  7. 7th August 1960Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  8. 8th August 1960Describe the allowance system.
  9. 9th August 1960Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  10. 10th August 1960Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  11. 11th August 1960Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  12. 12th August 1960Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  13. 13th August 1960What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  14. 14th August 1960Define intergenerational mobility.
  15. 15th August 1960Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  16. 16th August 1960What is 'primary deviance'?
  17. 17th August 1960How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  18. 18th August 1960What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  19. 19th August 1960What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  20. 20th August 1960Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  21. 21st August 1960Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  22. 22nd August 1960Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  23. 23rd August 1960What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  24. 24th August 1960What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  25. 25th August 1960What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  26. 26th August 1960Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  27. 27th August 1960What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  28. 28th August 1960What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  29. 29th August 1960According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  30. 30th August 1960According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  31. 31st August 1960Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.