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January 1980 5-a-day

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January 1980

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1980Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  2. 2nd January 1980State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  3. 3rd January 1980A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  4. 4th January 1980Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  5. 5th January 1980Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  6. 6th January 1980What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  7. 7th January 1980What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  8. 8th January 1980Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  9. 9th January 1980What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  10. 10th January 1980What is compensatory education?
  11. 11th January 1980What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  12. 12th January 1980How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  13. 13th January 1980According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  14. 14th January 1980Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  15. 15th January 1980Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  16. 16th January 1980What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  17. 17th January 1980Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  18. 18th January 1980Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  19. 19th January 1980What is the medical model of disability?
  20. 20th January 1980Define intragenerational mobility.
  21. 21st January 1980State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  22. 22nd January 1980What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  23. 23rd January 1980What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  24. 24th January 1980What is the Pupil Premium?
  25. 25th January 1980What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  26. 26th January 1980How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  27. 27th January 1980What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  28. 28th January 1980What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  29. 29th January 1980What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  30. 30th January 1980Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  31. 31st January 1980Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.