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December 1965 5-a-day

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December 1965

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in December 1965

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  1. 1st December 1965What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  2. 2nd December 1965What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  3. 3rd December 1965What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  4. 4th December 1965Define 'forced marriage'.
  5. 5th December 1965Define 'cohabitation'.
  6. 6th December 1965According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  7. 7th December 1965Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  8. 8th December 1965What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  9. 9th December 1965Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  10. 10th December 1965Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  11. 11th December 1965What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  12. 12th December 1965What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  13. 13th December 1965Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  14. 14th December 1965What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  15. 15th December 1965Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  16. 16th December 1965Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  17. 17th December 1965What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  18. 18th December 1965Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  19. 19th December 1965Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  20. 20th December 1965Describe the allowance system.
  21. 21st December 1965Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  22. 22nd December 1965Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  23. 23rd December 1965Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  24. 24th December 1965Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  25. 25th December 1965Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  26. 26th December 1965What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  27. 27th December 1965Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  28. 28th December 1965What is 'primary deviance'?
  29. 29th December 1965How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  30. 30th December 1965What is compensatory education?
  31. 31st December 1965What does Lacey mean by polarisation?