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December 1986 5-a-day

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December 1986

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1986Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  2. 2nd December 1986What is 'primary deviance'?
  3. 3rd December 1986How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  4. 4th December 1986What is compensatory education?
  5. 5th December 1986What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  6. 6th December 1986Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  7. 7th December 1986Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  8. 8th December 1986Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  9. 9th December 1986What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  10. 10th December 1986What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  11. 11th December 1986Define culture.
  12. 12th December 1986Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  13. 13th December 1986What is the medical model of disability?
  14. 14th December 1986Define intragenerational mobility.
  15. 15th December 1986According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  16. 16th December 1986According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  17. 17th December 1986Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  18. 18th December 1986What is the Pupil Premium?
  19. 19th December 1986What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  20. 20th December 1986How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  21. 21st December 1986Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  22. 22nd December 1986Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  23. 23rd December 1986Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  24. 24th December 1986State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  25. 25th December 1986Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  26. 26th December 1986Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  27. 27th December 1986Define globalisation.
  28. 28th December 1986Give one reason why absolute mobility in the UK rose during the 20th century even without the class system becoming much more open in relative terms.
  29. 29th December 1986What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  30. 30th December 1986Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  31. 31st December 1986What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?