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August 1977 5-a-day

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August 1977

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st August 1977Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  2. 2nd August 1977Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  3. 3rd August 1977State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  4. 4th August 1977Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  5. 5th August 1977Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  6. 6th August 1977Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  7. 7th August 1977Define social mobility.
  8. 8th August 1977What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  9. 9th August 1977Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  10. 10th August 1977What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  11. 11th August 1977What is Sure Start?
  12. 12th August 1977What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  13. 13th August 1977How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  14. 14th August 1977According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  15. 15th August 1977Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  16. 16th August 1977Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  17. 17th August 1977What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  18. 18th August 1977Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  19. 19th August 1977Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  20. 20th August 1977What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  21. 21st August 1977Define intergenerational mobility.
  22. 22nd August 1977State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  23. 23rd August 1977What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  24. 24th August 1977What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  25. 25th August 1977What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  26. 26th August 1977What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  27. 27th August 1977How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  28. 28th August 1977What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  29. 29th August 1977What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  30. 30th August 1977What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  31. 31st August 1977Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.