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February 1978 5-a-day

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February 1978

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1978What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  2. 2nd February 1978Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  3. 3rd February 1978Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  4. 4th February 1978What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  5. 5th February 1978Define intergenerational mobility.
  6. 6th February 1978According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  7. 7th February 1978According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  8. 8th February 1978Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  9. 9th February 1978What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  10. 10th February 1978What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  11. 11th February 1978How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  12. 12th February 1978Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  13. 13th February 1978Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  14. 14th February 1978Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  15. 15th February 1978State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  16. 16th February 1978What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  17. 17th February 1978Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  18. 18th February 1978What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  19. 19th February 1978What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  20. 20th February 1978What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  21. 21st February 1978Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  22. 22nd February 1978What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  23. 23rd February 1978Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  24. 24th February 1978What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  25. 25th February 1978How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  26. 26th February 1978According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  27. 27th February 1978Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  28. 28th February 1978Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?