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January 1986 5-a-day

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January 1986

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1986Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  2. 2nd January 1986What is compensatory education?
  3. 3rd January 1986What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  4. 4th January 1986Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  5. 5th January 1986What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  6. 6th January 1986Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  7. 7th January 1986What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  8. 8th January 1986What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  9. 9th January 1986Define culture.
  10. 10th January 1986Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  11. 11th January 1986What is the medical model of disability?
  12. 12th January 1986Define intragenerational mobility.
  13. 13th January 1986Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  14. 14th January 1986What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  15. 15th January 1986What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  16. 16th January 1986What is the Pupil Premium?
  17. 17th January 1986What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  18. 18th January 1986Define 'forced marriage'.
  19. 19th January 1986Define 'cohabitation'.
  20. 20th January 1986According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  21. 21st January 1986Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  22. 22nd January 1986What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  23. 23rd January 1986Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  24. 24th January 1986Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  25. 25th January 1986Define globalisation.
  26. 26th January 1986Give 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.
  27. 27th January 1986Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  28. 28th January 1986What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  29. 29th January 1986Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  30. 30th January 1986Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  31. 31st January 1986Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.