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April 1976 5-a-day

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April 1976

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1976Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  2. 2nd April 1976Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  3. 3rd April 1976What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  4. 4th April 1976Define intergenerational mobility.
  5. 5th April 1976What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  6. 6th April 1976Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  7. 7th April 1976What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  8. 8th April 1976What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  9. 9th April 1976What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  10. 10th April 1976How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  11. 11th April 1976According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  12. 12th April 1976Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  13. 13th April 1976Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  14. 14th April 1976What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  15. 15th April 1976What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  16. 16th April 1976Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  17. 17th April 1976What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  18. 18th April 1976What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  19. 19th April 1976State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  20. 20th April 1976What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  21. 21st April 1976What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  22. 22nd April 1976Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  23. 23rd April 1976What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  24. 24th April 1976How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  25. 25th April 1976What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  26. 26th April 1976What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  27. 27th April 1976What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  28. 28th April 1976Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  29. 29th April 1976A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  30. 30th April 1976Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?