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August 1971 5-a-day

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August 1971

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  1. 1st August 1971Give 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.
  2. 2nd August 1971Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  3. 3rd August 1971What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  4. 4th August 1971Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  5. 5th August 1971Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  6. 6th August 1971Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  7. 7th August 1971Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  8. 8th August 1971Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  9. 9th August 1971Describe the allowance system.
  10. 10th August 1971Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  11. 11th August 1971Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  12. 12th August 1971Define culture.
  13. 13th August 1971Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  14. 14th August 1971Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  15. 15th August 1971Define social mobility.
  16. 16th August 1971Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  17. 17th August 1971What is 'primary deviance'?
  18. 18th August 1971How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  19. 19th August 1971What is Sure Start?
  20. 20th August 1971What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  21. 21st August 1971Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  22. 22nd August 1971Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  23. 23rd August 1971Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  24. 24th August 1971What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  25. 25th August 1971What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  26. 26th August 1971Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  27. 27th August 1971Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  28. 28th August 1971What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  29. 29th August 1971Define intergenerational mobility.
  30. 30th August 1971According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  31. 31st August 1971According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?