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December 1968 5-a-day

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December 1968

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1968Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  2. 2nd December 1968Describe the allowance system.
  3. 3rd December 1968Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  4. 4th December 1968Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  5. 5th December 1968What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  6. 6th December 1968Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  7. 7th December 1968What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  8. 8th December 1968What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  9. 9th December 1968Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  10. 10th December 1968What is 'primary deviance'?
  11. 11th December 1968How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  12. 12th December 1968Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  13. 13th December 1968What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  14. 14th December 1968Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  15. 15th December 1968Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  16. 16th December 1968Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  17. 17th December 1968What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  18. 18th December 1968What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  19. 19th December 1968A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  20. 20th December 1968Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  21. 21st December 1968Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  22. 22nd December 1968What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  23. 23rd December 1968According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  24. 24th December 1968According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  25. 25th December 1968Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  26. 26th December 1968What is compensatory education?
  27. 27th December 1968What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  28. 28th December 1968How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  29. 29th December 1968Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  30. 30th December 1968Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  31. 31st December 1968Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?