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July 1981 5-a-day

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July 1981

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  1. 1st July 1981What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  2. 2nd July 1981What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  3. 3rd July 1981Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  4. 4th July 1981Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  5. 5th July 1981Define social mobility.
  6. 6th July 1981Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  7. 7th July 1981What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  8. 8th July 1981Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  9. 9th July 1981What is Sure Start?
  10. 10th July 1981What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  11. 11th July 1981Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  12. 12th July 1981Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  13. 13th July 1981Describe the allowance system.
  14. 14th July 1981Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  15. 15th July 1981Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  16. 16th July 1981A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  17. 17th July 1981Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  18. 18th July 1981What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  19. 19th July 1981Define intergenerational mobility.
  20. 20th July 1981Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  21. 21st July 1981What is 'primary deviance'?
  22. 22nd July 1981How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  23. 23rd July 1981What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  24. 24th July 1981What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  25. 25th July 1981Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  26. 26th July 1981Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  27. 27th July 1981Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  28. 28th July 1981What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  29. 29th July 1981What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  30. 30th July 1981Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  31. 31st July 1981Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.