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January 1988 5-a-day

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January 1988

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1988What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  2. 2nd January 1988Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  3. 3rd January 1988Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  4. 4th January 1988Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  5. 5th January 1988What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  6. 6th January 1988What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  7. 7th January 1988Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  8. 8th January 1988Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  9. 9th January 1988What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  10. 10th January 1988What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  11. 11th January 1988According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  12. 12th January 1988According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  13. 13th January 1988Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  14. 14th January 1988Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  15. 15th January 1988What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  16. 16th January 1988How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  17. 17th January 1988Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  18. 18th January 1988Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  19. 19th January 1988Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  20. 20th January 1988State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  21. 21st January 1988Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  22. 22nd January 1988Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  23. 23rd January 1988Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  24. 24th January 1988What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  25. 25th January 1988What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  26. 26th January 1988Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  27. 27th January 1988What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  28. 28th January 1988What is compensatory education?
  29. 29th January 1988What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  30. 30th January 1988How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  31. 31st January 1988According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?