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November 1986 5-a-day

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November 1986

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1986What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  2. 2nd November 1986Define intergenerational mobility.
  3. 3rd November 1986Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  4. 4th November 1986What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  5. 5th November 1986What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  6. 6th November 1986What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  7. 7th November 1986What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  8. 8th November 1986Define 'forced marriage'.
  9. 9th November 1986Define 'cohabitation'.
  10. 10th November 1986According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  11. 11th November 1986Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  12. 12th November 1986What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  13. 13th November 1986What is primary socialisation?
  14. 14th November 1986Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  15. 15th November 1986What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  16. 16th November 1986What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  17. 17th November 1986Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  18. 18th November 1986What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  19. 19th November 1986Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  20. 20th November 1986Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  21. 21st November 1986What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  22. 22nd November 1986Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  23. 23rd November 1986Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  24. 24th November 1986Describe the allowance system.
  25. 25th November 1986Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  26. 26th November 1986Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  27. 27th November 1986Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  28. 28th November 1986Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  29. 29th November 1986Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  30. 30th November 1986What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?