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October 1972 5-a-day

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October 1972

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1972Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  2. 2nd October 1972Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  3. 3rd October 1972Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  4. 4th October 1972State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  5. 5th October 1972What is primary socialisation?
  6. 6th October 1972Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  7. 7th October 1972Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  8. 8th October 1972Define social mobility.
  9. 9th October 1972What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  10. 10th October 1972Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  11. 11th October 1972What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  12. 12th October 1972What is Sure Start?
  13. 13th October 1972What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  14. 14th October 1972How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  15. 15th October 1972According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  16. 16th October 1972Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  17. 17th October 1972Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  18. 18th October 1972What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  19. 19th October 1972Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  20. 20th October 1972Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  21. 21st October 1972What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  22. 22nd October 1972Define intergenerational mobility.
  23. 23rd October 1972State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  24. 24th October 1972What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  25. 25th October 1972What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  26. 26th October 1972What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  27. 27th October 1972What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  28. 28th October 1972How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  29. 29th October 1972What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  30. 30th October 1972What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  31. 31st October 1972What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?