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September 1988 5-a-day

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September 1988

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st September 1988Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  2. 2nd September 1988Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  3. 3rd September 1988What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  4. 4th September 1988Define intergenerational mobility.
  5. 5th September 1988What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  6. 6th September 1988What is 'secondary deviance'?
  7. 7th September 1988Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  8. 8th September 1988What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  9. 9th September 1988What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  10. 10th September 1988Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  11. 11th September 1988What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  12. 12th September 1988Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  13. 13th September 1988What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  14. 14th September 1988What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  15. 15th September 1988What is primary socialisation?
  16. 16th September 1988Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  17. 17th September 1988What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  18. 18th September 1988What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  19. 19th September 1988Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  20. 20th September 1988What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  21. 21st September 1988What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  22. 22nd September 1988Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  23. 23rd September 1988What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  24. 24th September 1988Define 'forced marriage'.
  25. 25th September 1988Define 'cohabitation'.
  26. 26th September 1988According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  27. 27th September 1988Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  28. 28th September 1988What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  29. 29th September 1988Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  30. 30th September 1988Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?