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January 1982 5-a-day

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January 1982

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  1. 1st January 1982Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  2. 2nd January 1982What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  3. 3rd January 1982Define intergenerational mobility.
  4. 4th January 1982Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  5. 5th January 1982What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  6. 6th January 1982What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  7. 7th January 1982What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  8. 8th January 1982What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  9. 9th January 1982Define 'forced marriage'.
  10. 10th January 1982Define 'cohabitation'.
  11. 11th January 1982According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  12. 12th January 1982Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  13. 13th January 1982What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  14. 14th January 1982Define culture.
  15. 15th January 1982Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  16. 16th January 1982What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  17. 17th January 1982What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  18. 18th January 1982Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  19. 19th January 1982What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  20. 20th January 1982Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  21. 21st January 1982Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  22. 22nd January 1982What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  23. 23rd January 1982Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  24. 24th January 1982Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  25. 25th January 1982Describe the allowance system.
  26. 26th January 1982Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  27. 27th January 1982Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  28. 28th January 1982Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  29. 29th January 1982Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  30. 30th January 1982Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  31. 31st January 1982What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?