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August 1961 5-a-day

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August 1961

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  1. 1st August 1961What is 'secondary deviance'?
  2. 2nd August 1961Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  3. 3rd August 1961Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  4. 4th August 1961What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  5. 5th August 1961Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  6. 6th August 1961What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  7. 7th August 1961Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  8. 8th August 1961What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  9. 9th August 1961What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  10. 10th August 1961A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  11. 11th August 1961Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  12. 12th August 1961Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  13. 13th August 1961What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  14. 14th August 1961Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  15. 15th August 1961What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  16. 16th August 1961What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  17. 17th August 1961What is compensatory education?
  18. 18th August 1961What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  19. 19th August 1961Define 'forced marriage'.
  20. 20th August 1961Define 'cohabitation'.
  21. 21st August 1961According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  22. 22nd August 1961Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  23. 23rd August 1961What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  24. 24th August 1961Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  25. 25th August 1961Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  26. 26th August 1961What is the medical model of disability?
  27. 27th August 1961Define intragenerational mobility.
  28. 28th August 1961Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  29. 29th August 1961What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  30. 30th August 1961Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  31. 31st August 1961What is the Pupil Premium?