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December 1978 5-a-day

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December 1978

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1978What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  2. 2nd December 1978How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  3. 3rd December 1978Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  4. 4th December 1978Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  5. 5th December 1978Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  6. 6th December 1978State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  7. 7th December 1978Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  8. 8th December 1978Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  9. 9th December 1978Define globalisation.
  10. 10th December 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.
  11. 11th December 1978What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  12. 12th December 1978Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  13. 13th December 1978What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  14. 14th December 1978Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  15. 15th December 1978Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  16. 16th December 1978How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  17. 17th December 1978According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  18. 18th December 1978Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  19. 19th December 1978Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  20. 20th December 1978What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  21. 21st December 1978Define culture.
  22. 22nd December 1978Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  23. 23rd December 1978Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  24. 24th December 1978Define social mobility.
  25. 25th December 1978State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  26. 26th December 1978What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  27. 27th December 1978What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  28. 28th December 1978What is Sure Start?
  29. 29th December 1978What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  30. 30th December 1978How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  31. 31st December 1978What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?