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December 1963 5-a-day

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December 1963

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1963What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  2. 2nd December 1963What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  3. 3rd December 1963Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  4. 4th December 1963What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  5. 5th December 1963What is compensatory education?
  6. 6th December 1963What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  7. 7th December 1963How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  8. 8th December 1963According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  9. 9th December 1963Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  10. 10th December 1963Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  11. 11th December 1963What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  12. 12th December 1963Define culture.
  13. 13th December 1963Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  14. 14th December 1963What is the medical model of disability?
  15. 15th December 1963Define intragenerational mobility.
  16. 16th December 1963State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  17. 17th December 1963What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  18. 18th December 1963What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  19. 19th December 1963What is the Pupil Premium?
  20. 20th December 1963What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  21. 21st December 1963How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  22. 22nd December 1963What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  23. 23rd December 1963What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  24. 24th December 1963What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  25. 25th December 1963Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  26. 26th December 1963Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  27. 27th December 1963Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  28. 28th December 1963Define globalisation.
  29. 29th December 1963Give 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.
  30. 30th December 1963What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  31. 31st December 1963What is 'secondary deviance'?