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August 1986 5-a-day

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August 1986

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  1. 1st August 1986What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  2. 2nd August 1986Define 'forced marriage'.
  3. 3rd August 1986Define 'cohabitation'.
  4. 4th August 1986According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  5. 5th August 1986Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  6. 6th August 1986What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  7. 7th August 1986Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  8. 8th August 1986Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  9. 9th August 1986What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  10. 10th August 1986Define intergenerational mobility.
  11. 11th August 1986Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  12. 12th August 1986What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  13. 13th August 1986Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  14. 14th August 1986What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  15. 15th August 1986What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  16. 16th August 1986Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  17. 17th August 1986Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  18. 18th August 1986Describe the allowance system.
  19. 19th August 1986Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  20. 20th August 1986Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  21. 21st August 1986Define culture.
  22. 22nd August 1986Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  23. 23rd August 1986What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  24. 24th August 1986What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  25. 25th August 1986Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  26. 26th August 1986What is 'primary deviance'?
  27. 27th August 1986How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  28. 28th August 1986Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  29. 29th August 1986What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  30. 30th August 1986Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  31. 31st August 1986Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.