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March 1977 5-a-day

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March 1977

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  1. 1st March 1977What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  2. 2nd March 1977What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  3. 3rd March 1977Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  4. 4th March 1977Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  5. 5th March 1977What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  6. 6th March 1977Define intergenerational mobility.
  7. 7th March 1977Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  8. 8th March 1977What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  9. 9th March 1977What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  10. 10th March 1977What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  11. 11th March 1977What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  12. 12th March 1977Define 'forced marriage'.
  13. 13th March 1977Define 'cohabitation'.
  14. 14th March 1977According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  15. 15th March 1977Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  16. 16th March 1977What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  17. 17th March 1977What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  18. 18th March 1977Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  19. 19th March 1977What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  20. 20th March 1977What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  21. 21st March 1977Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  22. 22nd March 1977What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  23. 23rd March 1977Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  24. 24th March 1977Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  25. 25th March 1977What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  26. 26th March 1977Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  27. 27th March 1977Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  28. 28th March 1977Describe the allowance system.
  29. 29th March 1977Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  30. 30th March 1977Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  31. 31st March 1977A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?