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November 1981 5-a-day

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November 1981

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1981Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  2. 2nd November 1981Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  3. 3rd November 1981What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  4. 4th November 1981What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  5. 5th November 1981A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  6. 6th November 1981Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  7. 7th November 1981Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  8. 8th November 1981What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  9. 9th November 1981According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  10. 10th November 1981According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  11. 11th November 1981Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  12. 12th November 1981What is compensatory education?
  13. 13th November 1981What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  14. 14th November 1981How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  15. 15th November 1981Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  16. 16th November 1981Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  17. 17th November 1981Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  18. 18th November 1981State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  19. 19th November 1981Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  20. 20th November 1981Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  21. 21st November 1981What is the medical model of disability?
  22. 22nd November 1981Define intragenerational mobility.
  23. 23rd November 1981What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  24. 24th November 1981Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  25. 25th November 1981What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  26. 26th November 1981What is the Pupil Premium?
  27. 27th November 1981What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  28. 28th November 1981How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  29. 29th November 1981According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  30. 30th November 1981Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?