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October 1974 5-a-day

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October 1974

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1974What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  2. 2nd October 1974What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  3. 3rd October 1974What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  4. 4th October 1974Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  5. 5th October 1974What is the medical model of disability?
  6. 6th October 1974Define intragenerational mobility.
  7. 7th October 1974Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  8. 8th October 1974What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  9. 9th October 1974What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  10. 10th October 1974What is the Pupil Premium?
  11. 11th October 1974What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  12. 12th October 1974Define 'forced marriage'.
  13. 13th October 1974Define 'cohabitation'.
  14. 14th October 1974According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  15. 15th October 1974Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  16. 16th October 1974What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  17. 17th October 1974A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  18. 18th October 1974Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  19. 19th October 1974Define globalisation.
  20. 20th October 1974Give 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.
  21. 21st October 1974Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  22. 22nd October 1974What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  23. 23rd October 1974Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  24. 24th October 1974Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  25. 25th October 1974Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  26. 26th October 1974Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  27. 27th October 1974Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  28. 28th October 1974Describe the allowance system.
  29. 29th October 1974Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  30. 30th October 1974Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  31. 31st October 1974Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?