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August 1983 5-a-day

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August 1983

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st August 1983What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  2. 2nd August 1983What is 'secondary deviance'?
  3. 3rd August 1983Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  4. 4th August 1983What is Sure Start?
  5. 5th August 1983What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  6. 6th August 1983Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  7. 7th August 1983What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  8. 8th August 1983Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  9. 9th August 1983What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  10. 10th August 1983What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  11. 11th August 1983Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  12. 12th August 1983Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  13. 13th August 1983What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  14. 14th August 1983Define intergenerational mobility.
  15. 15th August 1983Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  16. 16th August 1983What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  17. 17th August 1983What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  18. 18th August 1983What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  19. 19th August 1983What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  20. 20th August 1983Define 'forced marriage'.
  21. 21st August 1983Define 'cohabitation'.
  22. 22nd August 1983According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  23. 23rd August 1983Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  24. 24th August 1983What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  25. 25th August 1983What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  26. 26th August 1983Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  27. 27th August 1983What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  28. 28th August 1983What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  29. 29th August 1983Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  30. 30th August 1983What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  31. 31st August 1983Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.