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June 1986 5-a-day

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June 1986

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st June 1986What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  2. 2nd June 1986According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  3. 3rd June 1986According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  4. 4th June 1986Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  5. 5th June 1986Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  6. 6th June 1986What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  7. 7th June 1986How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  8. 8th June 1986Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  9. 9th June 1986Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  10. 10th June 1986Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  11. 11th June 1986State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  12. 12th June 1986A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  13. 13th June 1986Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  14. 14th June 1986Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  15. 15th June 1986What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  16. 16th June 1986What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  17. 17th June 1986Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  18. 18th June 1986What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  19. 19th June 1986What is compensatory education?
  20. 20th June 1986What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  21. 21st June 1986How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  22. 22nd June 1986According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  23. 23rd June 1986Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  24. 24th June 1986Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  25. 25th June 1986What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  26. 26th June 1986Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  27. 27th June 1986Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  28. 28th June 1986What is the medical model of disability?
  29. 29th June 1986Define intragenerational mobility.
  30. 30th June 1986State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.