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December 1982 5-a-day

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December 1982

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1982What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  2. 2nd December 1982Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  3. 3rd December 1982Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  4. 4th December 1982What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  5. 5th December 1982Define intergenerational mobility.
  6. 6th December 1982According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  7. 7th December 1982According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  8. 8th December 1982Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  9. 9th December 1982What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  10. 10th December 1982What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  11. 11th December 1982How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  12. 12th December 1982Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  13. 13th December 1982Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  14. 14th December 1982Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  15. 15th December 1982State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  16. 16th December 1982Define culture.
  17. 17th December 1982Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  18. 18th December 1982What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  19. 19th December 1982What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  20. 20th December 1982What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  21. 21st December 1982Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  22. 22nd December 1982What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  23. 23rd December 1982Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  24. 24th December 1982What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  25. 25th December 1982How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  26. 26th December 1982According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  27. 27th December 1982Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  28. 28th December 1982Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  29. 29th December 1982What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  30. 30th December 1982Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  31. 31st December 1982Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.