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December 1961 5-a-day

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December 1961

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  1. 1st December 1961Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  2. 2nd December 1961Define globalisation.
  3. 3rd December 1961Give 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.
  4. 4th December 1961Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  5. 5th December 1961What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  6. 6th December 1961Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  7. 7th December 1961Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  8. 8th December 1961Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  9. 9th December 1961Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  10. 10th December 1961Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  11. 11th December 1961Describe the allowance system.
  12. 12th December 1961Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  13. 13th December 1961Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  14. 14th December 1961Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  15. 15th December 1961Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  16. 16th December 1961Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  17. 17th December 1961Define social mobility.
  18. 18th December 1961Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  19. 19th December 1961What is 'primary deviance'?
  20. 20th December 1961How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  21. 21st December 1961What is Sure Start?
  22. 22nd December 1961What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  23. 23rd December 1961Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  24. 24th December 1961Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  25. 25th December 1961Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  26. 26th December 1961What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  27. 27th December 1961What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  28. 28th December 1961Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  29. 29th December 1961Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  30. 30th December 1961What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  31. 31st December 1961Define intergenerational mobility.