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November 1964 5-a-day

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November 1964

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1964What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  2. 2nd November 1964Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  3. 3rd November 1964What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  4. 4th November 1964What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  5. 5th November 1964What is compensatory education?
  6. 6th November 1964What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  7. 7th November 1964Define 'forced marriage'.
  8. 8th November 1964Define 'cohabitation'.
  9. 9th November 1964According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  10. 10th November 1964Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  11. 11th November 1964What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  12. 12th November 1964Define culture.
  13. 13th November 1964Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  14. 14th November 1964What is the medical model of disability?
  15. 15th November 1964Define intragenerational mobility.
  16. 16th November 1964Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  17. 17th November 1964What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  18. 18th November 1964Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  19. 19th November 1964What is the Pupil Premium?
  20. 20th November 1964What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  21. 21st November 1964Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  22. 22nd November 1964Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  23. 23rd November 1964Describe the allowance system.
  24. 24th November 1964Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  25. 25th November 1964Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  26. 26th November 1964Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  27. 27th November 1964Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  28. 28th November 1964Define globalisation.
  29. 29th November 1964Give 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 November 1964Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.