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April 1985 5-a-day

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April 1985

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1985According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  2. 2nd April 1985Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  3. 3rd April 1985What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  4. 4th April 1985Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  5. 5th April 1985Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  6. 6th April 1985What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  7. 7th April 1985What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  8. 8th April 1985Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  9. 9th April 1985What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  10. 10th April 1985Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  11. 11th April 1985Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  12. 12th April 1985What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  13. 13th April 1985Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  14. 14th April 1985Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  15. 15th April 1985Describe the allowance system.
  16. 16th April 1985Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  17. 17th April 1985Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  18. 18th April 1985Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  19. 19th April 1985Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  20. 20th April 1985Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  21. 21st April 1985What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  22. 22nd April 1985Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  23. 23rd April 1985What is 'primary deviance'?
  24. 24th April 1985How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  25. 25th April 1985What is compensatory education?
  26. 26th April 1985What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  27. 27th April 1985Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  28. 28th April 1985Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  29. 29th April 1985Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  30. 30th April 1985What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?