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August 1985 5-a-day

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August 1985

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  1. 1st August 1985What is the Pupil Premium?
  2. 2nd August 1985What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  3. 3rd August 1985Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  4. 4th August 1985Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  5. 5th August 1985Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  6. 6th August 1985What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  7. 7th August 1985What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  8. 8th August 1985Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  9. 9th August 1985Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  10. 10th August 1985Define globalisation.
  11. 11th August 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.
  12. 12th August 1985According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  13. 13th August 1985According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  14. 14th August 1985Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  15. 15th August 1985Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  16. 16th August 1985Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  17. 17th August 1985How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  18. 18th August 1985Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  19. 19th August 1985Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  20. 20th August 1985Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  21. 21st August 1985State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  22. 22nd August 1985What is primary socialisation?
  23. 23rd August 1985Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  24. 24th August 1985Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  25. 25th August 1985Define social mobility.
  26. 26th August 1985What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  27. 27th August 1985Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  28. 28th August 1985What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  29. 29th August 1985What is Sure Start?
  30. 30th August 1985What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  31. 31st August 1985How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?