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October 1962 5-a-day

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October 1962

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1962Describe the allowance system.
  2. 2nd October 1962Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  3. 3rd October 1962Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  4. 4th October 1962Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  5. 5th October 1962Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  6. 6th October 1962Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  7. 7th October 1962What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  8. 8th October 1962Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  9. 9th October 1962What is 'primary deviance'?
  10. 10th October 1962How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  11. 11th October 1962What is compensatory education?
  12. 12th October 1962What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  13. 13th October 1962Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  14. 14th October 1962Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  15. 15th October 1962Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  16. 16th October 1962What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  17. 17th October 1962What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  18. 18th October 1962What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  19. 19th October 1962Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  20. 20th October 1962What is the medical model of disability?
  21. 21st October 1962Define intragenerational mobility.
  22. 22nd October 1962According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  23. 23rd October 1962According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  24. 24th October 1962Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  25. 25th October 1962What is the Pupil Premium?
  26. 26th October 1962What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  27. 27th October 1962How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  28. 28th October 1962Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  29. 29th October 1962Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  30. 30th October 1962Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  31. 31st October 1962State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.