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September 1987 5-a-day

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September 1987

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st September 1987Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  2. 2nd September 1987What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  3. 3rd September 1987A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  4. 4th September 1987Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  5. 5th September 1987Define globalisation.
  6. 6th September 1987Give 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.
  7. 7th September 1987Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  8. 8th September 1987What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  9. 9th September 1987Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  10. 10th September 1987Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  11. 11th September 1987Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  12. 12th September 1987Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  13. 13th September 1987Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  14. 14th September 1987Describe the allowance system.
  15. 15th September 1987Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  16. 16th September 1987Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  17. 17th September 1987Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  18. 18th September 1987Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  19. 19th September 1987Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  20. 20th September 1987Define social mobility.
  21. 21st September 1987Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  22. 22nd September 1987What is 'primary deviance'?
  23. 23rd September 1987How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  24. 24th September 1987What is Sure Start?
  25. 25th September 1987What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  26. 26th September 1987Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  27. 27th September 1987Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  28. 28th September 1987Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  29. 29th September 1987What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  30. 30th September 1987What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?