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October 1984 5-a-day

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October 1984

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1984Describe the allowance system.
  2. 2nd October 1984Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  3. 3rd October 1984Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  4. 4th October 1984Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  5. 5th October 1984Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  6. 6th October 1984What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  7. 7th October 1984Define intergenerational mobility.
  8. 8th October 1984Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  9. 9th October 1984What is 'primary deviance'?
  10. 10th October 1984How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  11. 11th October 1984What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  12. 12th October 1984What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  13. 13th October 1984Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  14. 14th October 1984Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  15. 15th October 1984Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  16. 16th October 1984What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  17. 17th October 1984What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  18. 18th October 1984Define culture.
  19. 19th October 1984Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  20. 20th October 1984What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  21. 21st October 1984What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  22. 22nd October 1984According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  23. 23rd October 1984According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  24. 24th October 1984Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  25. 25th October 1984Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  26. 26th October 1984What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  27. 27th October 1984How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  28. 28th October 1984Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  29. 29th October 1984Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  30. 30th October 1984Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  31. 31st October 1984State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.