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December 1960 5-a-day

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December 1960

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1960Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  2. 2nd December 1960Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  3. 3rd December 1960Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  4. 4th December 1960What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  5. 5th December 1960According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  6. 6th December 1960According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  7. 7th December 1960Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  8. 8th December 1960What is compensatory education?
  9. 9th December 1960What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  10. 10th December 1960How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  11. 11th December 1960Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  12. 12th December 1960Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  13. 13th December 1960Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  14. 14th December 1960State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  15. 15th December 1960What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  16. 16th December 1960Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  17. 17th December 1960What is the medical model of disability?
  18. 18th December 1960Define intragenerational mobility.
  19. 19th December 1960What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  20. 20th December 1960Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  21. 21st December 1960What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  22. 22nd December 1960What is the Pupil Premium?
  23. 23rd December 1960What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  24. 24th December 1960How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  25. 25th December 1960According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  26. 26th December 1960Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  27. 27th December 1960Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  28. 28th December 1960What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  29. 29th December 1960A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  30. 30th December 1960Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  31. 31st December 1960Define globalisation.