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May 1986 5-a-day

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May 1986

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st May 1986Define culture.
  2. 2nd May 1986Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  3. 3rd May 1986Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  4. 4th May 1986Define social mobility.
  5. 5th May 1986Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  6. 6th May 1986What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  7. 7th May 1986Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  8. 8th May 1986What is Sure Start?
  9. 9th May 1986What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  10. 10th May 1986Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  11. 11th May 1986Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  12. 12th May 1986Describe the allowance system.
  13. 13th May 1986Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  14. 14th May 1986Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  15. 15th May 1986Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  16. 16th May 1986Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  17. 17th May 1986What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  18. 18th May 1986Define intergenerational mobility.
  19. 19th May 1986Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  20. 20th May 1986What is 'primary deviance'?
  21. 21st May 1986How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  22. 22nd May 1986What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  23. 23rd May 1986What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  24. 24th May 1986Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  25. 25th May 1986Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  26. 26th May 1986Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  27. 27th May 1986What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  28. 28th May 1986What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  29. 29th May 1986What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  30. 30th May 1986Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  31. 31st May 1986What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?