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August 1982 5-a-day

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August 1982

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  1. 1st August 1982Define intragenerational mobility.
  2. 2nd August 1982Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  3. 3rd August 1982What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  4. 4th August 1982Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  5. 5th August 1982What is the Pupil Premium?
  6. 6th August 1982What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  7. 7th August 1982Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  8. 8th August 1982Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  9. 9th August 1982Describe the allowance system.
  10. 10th August 1982Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  11. 11th August 1982Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  12. 12th August 1982Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  13. 13th August 1982Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  14. 14th August 1982Define globalisation.
  15. 15th August 1982Give 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.
  16. 16th August 1982Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  17. 17th August 1982What is 'primary deviance'?
  18. 18th August 1982How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  19. 19th August 1982Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  20. 20th August 1982Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  21. 21st August 1982Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  22. 22nd August 1982Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  23. 23rd August 1982Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  24. 24th August 1982What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  25. 25th August 1982What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  26. 26th August 1982Define culture.
  27. 27th August 1982Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  28. 28th August 1982Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  29. 29th August 1982Define social mobility.
  30. 30th August 1982According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  31. 31st August 1982According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?