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March 1988 5-a-day

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March 1988

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st March 1988What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  2. 2nd March 1988What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  3. 3rd March 1988Define culture.
  4. 4th March 1988Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  5. 5th March 1988Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  6. 6th March 1988Define social mobility.
  7. 7th March 1988Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  8. 8th March 1988What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  9. 9th March 1988What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  10. 10th March 1988What is Sure Start?
  11. 11th March 1988What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  12. 12th March 1988Define 'forced marriage'.
  13. 13th March 1988Define 'cohabitation'.
  14. 14th March 1988According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  15. 15th March 1988Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  16. 16th March 1988What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  17. 17th March 1988Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  18. 18th March 1988Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  19. 19th March 1988What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  20. 20th March 1988Define intergenerational mobility.
  21. 21st March 1988Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  22. 22nd March 1988What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  23. 23rd March 1988Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  24. 24th March 1988What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  25. 25th March 1988What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  26. 26th March 1988Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  27. 27th March 1988Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  28. 28th March 1988Describe the allowance system.
  29. 29th March 1988Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  30. 30th March 1988Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  31. 31st March 1988What is the difference between a norm and a value?