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December 1962 5-a-day

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December 1962

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1962What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  2. 2nd December 1962Define intergenerational mobility.
  3. 3rd December 1962What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  4. 4th December 1962What is 'secondary deviance'?
  5. 5th December 1962Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  6. 6th December 1962What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  7. 7th December 1962What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  8. 8th December 1962Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  9. 9th December 1962What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  10. 10th December 1962Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  11. 11th December 1962What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  12. 12th December 1962What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  13. 13th December 1962What is primary socialisation?
  14. 14th December 1962Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  15. 15th December 1962What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  16. 16th December 1962What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  17. 17th December 1962Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  18. 18th December 1962What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  19. 19th December 1962What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  20. 20th December 1962Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  21. 21st December 1962What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  22. 22nd December 1962Define 'forced marriage'.
  23. 23rd December 1962Define 'cohabitation'.
  24. 24th December 1962According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  25. 25th December 1962Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  26. 26th December 1962What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  27. 27th December 1962Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  28. 28th December 1962Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  29. 29th December 1962Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  30. 30th December 1962What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  31. 31st December 1962Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.