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January 1989 5-a-day

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January 1989

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1989Define 'cohabitation'.
  2. 2nd January 1989According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  3. 3rd January 1989Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  4. 4th January 1989What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  5. 5th January 1989What is primary socialisation?
  6. 6th January 1989Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  7. 7th January 1989What is the medical model of disability?
  8. 8th January 1989Define intragenerational mobility.
  9. 9th January 1989Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  10. 10th January 1989What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  11. 11th January 1989Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  12. 12th January 1989What is the Pupil Premium?
  13. 13th January 1989What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  14. 14th January 1989Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  15. 15th January 1989Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  16. 16th January 1989Describe the allowance system.
  17. 17th January 1989Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  18. 18th January 1989Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  19. 19th January 1989Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  20. 20th January 1989Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  21. 21st January 1989Define globalisation.
  22. 22nd January 1989Give 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.
  23. 23rd January 1989Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  24. 24th January 1989What is 'primary deviance'?
  25. 25th January 1989How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  26. 26th January 1989Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  27. 27th January 1989Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  28. 28th January 1989Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  29. 29th January 1989Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  30. 30th January 1989Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  31. 31st January 1989What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?