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December 1971 5-a-day

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December 1971

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1971What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  2. 2nd December 1971Define culture.
  3. 3rd December 1971Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  4. 4th December 1971What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  5. 5th December 1971What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  6. 6th December 1971According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  7. 7th December 1971According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  8. 8th December 1971Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  9. 9th December 1971Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  10. 10th December 1971What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  11. 11th December 1971How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  12. 12th December 1971Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  13. 13th December 1971Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  14. 14th December 1971Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  15. 15th December 1971State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  16. 16th December 1971Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  17. 17th December 1971Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  18. 18th December 1971Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  19. 19th December 1971What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  20. 20th December 1971What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  21. 21st December 1971Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  22. 22nd December 1971What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  23. 23rd December 1971What is compensatory education?
  24. 24th December 1971What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  25. 25th December 1971How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  26. 26th December 1971According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  27. 27th December 1971Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  28. 28th December 1971Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  29. 29th December 1971What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  30. 30th December 1971What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  31. 31st December 1971Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.