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April 1980 5-a-day

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April 1980

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1980According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  2. 2nd April 1980Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  3. 3rd April 1980What is compensatory education?
  4. 4th April 1980What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  5. 5th April 1980How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  6. 6th April 1980Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  7. 7th April 1980Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  8. 8th April 1980Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  9. 9th April 1980State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  10. 10th April 1980What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  11. 11th April 1980Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  12. 12th April 1980What is the medical model of disability?
  13. 13th April 1980Define intragenerational mobility.
  14. 14th April 1980What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  15. 15th April 1980Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  16. 16th April 1980What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  17. 17th April 1980What is the Pupil Premium?
  18. 18th April 1980What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  19. 19th April 1980How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  20. 20th April 1980According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  21. 21st April 1980Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  22. 22nd April 1980Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  23. 23rd April 1980What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  24. 24th April 1980A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  25. 25th April 1980Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  26. 26th April 1980Define globalisation.
  27. 27th April 1980Give 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.
  28. 28th April 1980State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  29. 29th April 1980What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  30. 30th April 1980What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?