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January 1978 5-a-day

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January 1978

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1978Define 'cohabitation'.
  2. 2nd January 1978According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  3. 3rd January 1978Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  4. 4th January 1978What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  5. 5th January 1978Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  6. 6th January 1978Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  7. 7th January 1978Define globalisation.
  8. 8th January 1978Give 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.
  9. 9th January 1978Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  10. 10th January 1978What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  11. 11th January 1978Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  12. 12th January 1978Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  13. 13th January 1978Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  14. 14th January 1978Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  15. 15th January 1978Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  16. 16th January 1978Describe the allowance system.
  17. 17th January 1978Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  18. 18th January 1978Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  19. 19th January 1978Define culture.
  20. 20th January 1978Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  21. 21st January 1978Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  22. 22nd January 1978Define social mobility.
  23. 23rd January 1978Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  24. 24th January 1978What is 'primary deviance'?
  25. 25th January 1978How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  26. 26th January 1978What is Sure Start?
  27. 27th January 1978What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  28. 28th January 1978Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  29. 29th January 1978Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  30. 30th January 1978Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  31. 31st January 1978What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?