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April 1979 5-a-day

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April 1979

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1979Define intergenerational mobility.
  2. 2nd April 1979State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  3. 3rd April 1979What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  4. 4th April 1979What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  5. 5th April 1979What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  6. 6th April 1979What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  7. 7th April 1979How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  8. 8th April 1979What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  9. 9th April 1979What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  10. 10th April 1979What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  11. 11th April 1979Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  12. 12th April 1979Define culture.
  13. 13th April 1979Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  14. 14th April 1979What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  15. 15th April 1979What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  16. 16th April 1979What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  17. 17th April 1979What is 'secondary deviance'?
  18. 18th April 1979Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  19. 19th April 1979Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  20. 20th April 1979What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  21. 21st April 1979Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  22. 22nd April 1979What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  23. 23rd April 1979Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  24. 24th April 1979What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  25. 25th April 1979What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  26. 26th April 1979Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  27. 27th April 1979Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  28. 28th April 1979Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  29. 29th April 1979What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  30. 30th April 1979Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.