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October 1988 5-a-day

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October 1988

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1988Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  2. 2nd October 1988What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  3. 3rd October 1988Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  4. 4th October 1988What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  5. 5th October 1988Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  6. 6th October 1988What is compensatory education?
  7. 7th October 1988What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  8. 8th October 1988Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  9. 9th October 1988Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  10. 10th October 1988Describe the allowance system.
  11. 11th October 1988Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  12. 12th October 1988Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  13. 13th October 1988Define culture.
  14. 14th October 1988Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  15. 15th October 1988What is the medical model of disability?
  16. 16th October 1988Define intragenerational mobility.
  17. 17th October 1988Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  18. 18th October 1988What is 'primary deviance'?
  19. 19th October 1988How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  20. 20th October 1988What is the Pupil Premium?
  21. 21st October 1988What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  22. 22nd October 1988Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  23. 23rd October 1988Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  24. 24th October 1988Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  25. 25th October 1988What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  26. 26th October 1988What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  27. 27th October 1988Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  28. 28th October 1988Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  29. 29th October 1988Define globalisation.
  30. 30th October 1988Give 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.
  31. 31st October 1988According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?