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December 1972 5-a-day

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December 1972

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1972Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  2. 2nd December 1972What is the medical model of disability?
  3. 3rd December 1972Define intragenerational mobility.
  4. 4th December 1972Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  5. 5th December 1972What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  6. 6th December 1972Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  7. 7th December 1972What is the Pupil Premium?
  8. 8th December 1972What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  9. 9th December 1972Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  10. 10th December 1972Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  11. 11th December 1972Describe the allowance system.
  12. 12th December 1972Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  13. 13th December 1972Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  14. 14th December 1972A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  15. 15th December 1972Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  16. 16th December 1972Define globalisation.
  17. 17th December 1972Give 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.
  18. 18th December 1972Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  19. 19th December 1972What is 'primary deviance'?
  20. 20th December 1972How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  21. 21st December 1972Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  22. 22nd December 1972Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  23. 23rd December 1972Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  24. 24th December 1972Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  25. 25th December 1972Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  26. 26th December 1972What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  27. 27th December 1972What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  28. 28th December 1972Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  29. 29th December 1972Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  30. 30th December 1972Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  31. 31st December 1972Define social mobility.