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December 1988 5-a-day

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December 1988

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1988What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  2. 2nd December 1988What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  3. 3rd December 1988How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  4. 4th December 1988What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  5. 5th December 1988What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  6. 6th December 1988What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  7. 7th December 1988Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  8. 8th December 1988Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  9. 9th December 1988Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  10. 10th December 1988What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  11. 11th December 1988What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  12. 12th December 1988What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  13. 13th December 1988What is 'secondary deviance'?
  14. 14th December 1988Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  15. 15th December 1988Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  16. 16th December 1988What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  17. 17th December 1988Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  18. 18th December 1988What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  19. 19th December 1988Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  20. 20th December 1988What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  21. 21st December 1988What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  22. 22nd December 1988Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  23. 23rd December 1988Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  24. 24th December 1988Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  25. 25th December 1988What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  26. 26th December 1988Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  27. 27th December 1988What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  28. 28th December 1988What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  29. 29th December 1988What is compensatory education?
  30. 30th December 1988What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  31. 31st December 1988Define 'forced marriage'.