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November 1987 5-a-day

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November 1987

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st November 1987What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  2. 2nd November 1987State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  3. 3rd November 1987What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  4. 4th November 1987What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  5. 5th November 1987What is compensatory education?
  6. 6th November 1987What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  7. 7th November 1987How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  8. 8th November 1987What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  9. 9th November 1987What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  10. 10th November 1987What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  11. 11th November 1987Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  12. 12th November 1987Define culture.
  13. 13th November 1987Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  14. 14th November 1987What is the medical model of disability?
  15. 15th November 1987Define intragenerational mobility.
  16. 16th November 1987What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  17. 17th November 1987What is 'secondary deviance'?
  18. 18th November 1987Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  19. 19th November 1987What is the Pupil Premium?
  20. 20th November 1987What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  21. 21st November 1987Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  22. 22nd November 1987What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  23. 23rd November 1987Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  24. 24th November 1987What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  25. 25th November 1987What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  26. 26th November 1987Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  27. 27th November 1987Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  28. 28th November 1987Define globalisation.
  29. 29th November 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.
  30. 30th November 1987Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.