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August 1968 5-a-day

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August 1968

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  1. 1st August 1968Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  2. 2nd August 1968Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  3. 3rd August 1968Define globalisation.
  4. 4th August 1968Give 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.
  5. 5th August 1968Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  6. 6th August 1968What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  7. 7th August 1968What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  8. 8th August 1968Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  9. 9th August 1968Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  10. 10th August 1968Define 'forced marriage'.
  11. 11th August 1968Define 'cohabitation'.
  12. 12th August 1968According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  13. 13th August 1968Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  14. 14th August 1968What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  15. 15th August 1968What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  16. 16th August 1968Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  17. 17th August 1968Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  18. 18th August 1968Define social mobility.
  19. 19th August 1968Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  20. 20th August 1968What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  21. 21st August 1968Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  22. 22nd August 1968What is Sure Start?
  23. 23rd August 1968What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  24. 24th August 1968Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  25. 25th August 1968Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  26. 26th August 1968Describe the allowance system.
  27. 27th August 1968Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  28. 28th August 1968Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  29. 29th August 1968A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  30. 30th August 1968Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  31. 31st August 1968What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?