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April 1973 5-a-day

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April 1973

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1973Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  2. 2nd April 1973Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  3. 3rd April 1973What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  4. 4th April 1973What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  5. 5th April 1973A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  6. 6th April 1973Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  7. 7th April 1973What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  8. 8th April 1973Define intergenerational mobility.
  9. 9th April 1973According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  10. 10th April 1973According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  11. 11th April 1973Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  12. 12th April 1973What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  13. 13th April 1973What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  14. 14th April 1973How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  15. 15th April 1973Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  16. 16th April 1973Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  17. 17th April 1973Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  18. 18th April 1973State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  19. 19th April 1973Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  20. 20th April 1973Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  21. 21st April 1973What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  22. 22nd April 1973What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  23. 23rd April 1973What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  24. 24th April 1973Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  25. 25th April 1973What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  26. 26th April 1973Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  27. 27th April 1973What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  28. 28th April 1973How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  29. 29th April 1973According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  30. 30th April 1973Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?