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June 1983 5-a-day

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June 1983

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st June 1983Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  2. 2nd June 1983Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  3. 3rd June 1983Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  4. 4th June 1983What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  5. 5th June 1983What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  6. 6th June 1983Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  7. 7th June 1983What is 'primary deviance'?
  8. 8th June 1983How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  9. 9th June 1983Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  10. 10th June 1983What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  11. 11th June 1983Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  12. 12th June 1983Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  13. 13th June 1983Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  14. 14th June 1983What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  15. 15th June 1983What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  16. 16th June 1983Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  17. 17th June 1983Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  18. 18th June 1983Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  19. 19th June 1983What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  20. 20th June 1983According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  21. 21st June 1983According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  22. 22nd June 1983Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  23. 23rd June 1983What is compensatory education?
  24. 24th June 1983What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  25. 25th June 1983How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  26. 26th June 1983Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  27. 27th June 1983Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  28. 28th June 1983Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  29. 29th June 1983State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  30. 30th June 1983What is primary socialisation?