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September 1986 5-a-day

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September 1986

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st September 1986Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  2. 2nd September 1986What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  3. 3rd September 1986What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  4. 4th September 1986Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  5. 5th September 1986Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  6. 6th September 1986Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  7. 7th September 1986What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  8. 8th September 1986According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  9. 9th September 1986According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  10. 10th September 1986Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  11. 11th September 1986What is compensatory education?
  12. 12th September 1986What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  13. 13th September 1986How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  14. 14th September 1986Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  15. 15th September 1986Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  16. 16th September 1986Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  17. 17th September 1986State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  18. 18th September 1986What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  19. 19th September 1986Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  20. 20th September 1986What is the medical model of disability?
  21. 21st September 1986Define intragenerational mobility.
  22. 22nd September 1986What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  23. 23rd September 1986Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  24. 24th September 1986What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  25. 25th September 1986What is the Pupil Premium?
  26. 26th September 1986What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  27. 27th September 1986How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  28. 28th September 1986According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  29. 29th September 1986Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  30. 30th September 1986Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?