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October 1973 5-a-day

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October 1973

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1973Describe the allowance system.
  2. 2nd October 1973Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  3. 3rd October 1973Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  4. 4th October 1973Define culture.
  5. 5th October 1973Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  6. 6th October 1973What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  7. 7th October 1973What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  8. 8th October 1973Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  9. 9th October 1973What is 'primary deviance'?
  10. 10th October 1973How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  11. 11th October 1973Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  12. 12th October 1973What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  13. 13th October 1973Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  14. 14th October 1973Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  15. 15th October 1973Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  16. 16th October 1973What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  17. 17th October 1973What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  18. 18th October 1973Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  19. 19th October 1973Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  20. 20th October 1973Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  21. 21st October 1973What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  22. 22nd October 1973According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  23. 23rd October 1973According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  24. 24th October 1973Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  25. 25th October 1973What is compensatory education?
  26. 26th October 1973What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  27. 27th October 1973How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  28. 28th October 1973Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  29. 29th October 1973Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  30. 30th October 1973Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  31. 31st October 1973State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.