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December 1984 5-a-day

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December 1984

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1984Define globalisation.
  2. 2nd December 1984Give 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.
  3. 3rd December 1984What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  4. 4th December 1984What is 'secondary deviance'?
  5. 5th December 1984Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  6. 6th December 1984Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  7. 7th December 1984Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  8. 8th December 1984Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  9. 9th December 1984What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  10. 10th December 1984Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  11. 11th December 1984What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  12. 12th December 1984What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  13. 13th December 1984Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  14. 14th December 1984Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  15. 15th December 1984Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  16. 16th December 1984Define social mobility.
  17. 17th December 1984Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  18. 18th December 1984What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  19. 19th December 1984What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  20. 20th December 1984What is Sure Start?
  21. 21st December 1984What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  22. 22nd December 1984Define 'forced marriage'.
  23. 23rd December 1984Define 'cohabitation'.
  24. 24th December 1984According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  25. 25th December 1984Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  26. 26th December 1984What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  27. 27th December 1984Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  28. 28th December 1984Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  29. 29th December 1984What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  30. 30th December 1984Define intergenerational mobility.
  31. 31st December 1984Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.