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April 1987 5-a-day

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April 1987

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1987State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  2. 2nd April 1987Define culture.
  3. 3rd April 1987Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  4. 4th April 1987Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  5. 5th April 1987Define social mobility.
  6. 6th April 1987What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  7. 7th April 1987Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  8. 8th April 1987What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  9. 9th April 1987What is Sure Start?
  10. 10th April 1987What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  11. 11th April 1987How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  12. 12th April 1987According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  13. 13th April 1987Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  14. 14th April 1987Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  15. 15th April 1987What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  16. 16th April 1987Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  17. 17th April 1987Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  18. 18th April 1987What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  19. 19th April 1987Define intergenerational mobility.
  20. 20th April 1987State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  21. 21st April 1987What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  22. 22nd April 1987What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  23. 23rd April 1987What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  24. 24th April 1987What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  25. 25th April 1987How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  26. 26th April 1987What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  27. 27th April 1987What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  28. 28th April 1987What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  29. 29th April 1987Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  30. 30th April 1987What is the difference between a norm and a value?