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August 1967 5-a-day

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August 1967

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  1. 1st August 1967Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  2. 2nd August 1967Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  3. 3rd August 1967Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  4. 4th August 1967Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  5. 5th August 1967Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  6. 6th August 1967What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  7. 7th August 1967Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  8. 8th August 1967What is 'primary deviance'?
  9. 9th August 1967How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  10. 10th August 1967What is compensatory education?
  11. 11th August 1967What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  12. 12th August 1967Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  13. 13th August 1967Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  14. 14th August 1967Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  15. 15th August 1967What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  16. 16th August 1967What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  17. 17th August 1967Define culture.
  18. 18th August 1967Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  19. 19th August 1967What is the medical model of disability?
  20. 20th August 1967Define intragenerational mobility.
  21. 21st August 1967According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  22. 22nd August 1967According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  23. 23rd August 1967Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  24. 24th August 1967What is the Pupil Premium?
  25. 25th August 1967What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  26. 26th August 1967How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  27. 27th August 1967Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  28. 28th August 1967Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  29. 29th August 1967Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  30. 30th August 1967State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  31. 31st August 1967Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.