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April 1988 5-a-day

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April 1988

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1988Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  2. 2nd April 1988What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  3. 3rd April 1988What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  4. 4th April 1988Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  5. 5th April 1988What is 'primary deviance'?
  6. 6th April 1988How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  7. 7th April 1988Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  8. 8th April 1988What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  9. 9th April 1988Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  10. 10th April 1988Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  11. 11th April 1988Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  12. 12th April 1988What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  13. 13th April 1988What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  14. 14th April 1988A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  15. 15th April 1988Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  16. 16th April 1988Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  17. 17th April 1988What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  18. 18th April 1988According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  19. 19th April 1988According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  20. 20th April 1988Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  21. 21st April 1988What is compensatory education?
  22. 22nd April 1988What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  23. 23rd April 1988How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  24. 24th April 1988Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  25. 25th April 1988Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  26. 26th April 1988Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  27. 27th April 1988State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  28. 28th April 1988Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  29. 29th April 1988Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  30. 30th April 1988What is the medical model of disability?