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February 1985 5-a-day

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February 1985

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1985What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  2. 2nd February 1985How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  3. 3rd February 1985Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  4. 4th February 1985Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  5. 5th February 1985Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  6. 6th February 1985State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  7. 7th February 1985Define culture.
  8. 8th February 1985Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  9. 9th February 1985What is the medical model of disability?
  10. 10th February 1985Define intragenerational mobility.
  11. 11th February 1985What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  12. 12th February 1985Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  13. 13th February 1985What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  14. 14th February 1985What is the Pupil Premium?
  15. 15th February 1985What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  16. 16th February 1985How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  17. 17th February 1985According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  18. 18th February 1985Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  19. 19th February 1985Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  20. 20th February 1985What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  21. 21st February 1985Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  22. 22nd February 1985Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  23. 23rd February 1985Define globalisation.
  24. 24th February 1985Give 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.
  25. 25th February 1985State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  26. 26th February 1985What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  27. 27th February 1985What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  28. 28th February 1985Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.