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June 1979 5-a-day

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June 1979

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st June 1979Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  2. 2nd June 1979Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  3. 3rd June 1979Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  4. 4th June 1979Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  5. 5th June 1979What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  6. 6th June 1979What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  7. 7th June 1979Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  8. 8th June 1979Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  9. 9th June 1979Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  10. 10th June 1979Define social mobility.
  11. 11th June 1979According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  12. 12th June 1979According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  13. 13th June 1979Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  14. 14th June 1979What is Sure Start?
  15. 15th June 1979What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  16. 16th June 1979How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  17. 17th June 1979Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  18. 18th June 1979Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  19. 19th June 1979Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  20. 20th June 1979State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  21. 21st June 1979Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  22. 22nd June 1979Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  23. 23rd June 1979What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  24. 24th June 1979Define intergenerational mobility.
  25. 25th June 1979What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  26. 26th June 1979Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  27. 27th June 1979What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  28. 28th June 1979What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  29. 29th June 1979What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  30. 30th June 1979How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?