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April 1962 5-a-day

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April 1962

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1962Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  2. 2nd April 1962Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  3. 3rd April 1962What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  4. 4th April 1962What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  5. 5th April 1962Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  6. 6th April 1962Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  7. 7th April 1962What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  8. 8th April 1962What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  9. 9th April 1962According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  10. 10th April 1962According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  11. 11th April 1962Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  12. 12th April 1962Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  13. 13th April 1962What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  14. 14th April 1962How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  15. 15th April 1962Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  16. 16th April 1962Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  17. 17th April 1962Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  18. 18th April 1962State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  19. 19th April 1962Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  20. 20th April 1962Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  21. 21st April 1962Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  22. 22nd April 1962What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  23. 23rd April 1962What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  24. 24th April 1962Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  25. 25th April 1962What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  26. 26th April 1962What is compensatory education?
  27. 27th April 1962What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  28. 28th April 1962How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  29. 29th April 1962According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  30. 30th April 1962Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?