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May 1961 5-a-day

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May 1961

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  1. 1st May 1961Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  2. 2nd May 1961What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  3. 3rd May 1961What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  4. 4th May 1961Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  5. 5th May 1961Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  6. 6th May 1961What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  7. 7th May 1961What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  8. 8th May 1961Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  9. 9th May 1961What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  10. 10th May 1961What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  11. 11th May 1961Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  12. 12th May 1961What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  13. 13th May 1961Define 'forced marriage'.
  14. 14th May 1961Define 'cohabitation'.
  15. 15th May 1961According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  16. 16th May 1961Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  17. 17th May 1961What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  18. 18th May 1961Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  19. 19th May 1961Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  20. 20th May 1961Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  21. 21st May 1961What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  22. 22nd May 1961Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  23. 23rd May 1961What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  24. 24th May 1961Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  25. 25th May 1961What is compensatory education?
  26. 26th May 1961What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  27. 27th May 1961Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  28. 28th May 1961Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  29. 29th May 1961Describe the allowance system.
  30. 30th May 1961Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  31. 31st May 1961Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.