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December 1979 5-a-day

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December 1979

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1979Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  2. 2nd December 1979Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  3. 3rd December 1979Describe the allowance system.
  4. 4th December 1979Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  5. 5th December 1979Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  6. 6th December 1979Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  7. 7th December 1979Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  8. 8th December 1979What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  9. 9th December 1979Define intergenerational mobility.
  10. 10th December 1979Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  11. 11th December 1979What is 'primary deviance'?
  12. 12th December 1979How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  13. 13th December 1979What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  14. 14th December 1979What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  15. 15th December 1979Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  16. 16th December 1979Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  17. 17th December 1979Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  18. 18th December 1979What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  19. 19th December 1979What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  20. 20th December 1979What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  21. 21st December 1979Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  22. 22nd December 1979What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  23. 23rd December 1979What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  24. 24th December 1979According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  25. 25th December 1979According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  26. 26th December 1979Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  27. 27th December 1979Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  28. 28th December 1979What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  29. 29th December 1979How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  30. 30th December 1979Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  31. 31st December 1979Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?