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February 1989 5-a-day

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February 1989

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st February 1989What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  2. 2nd February 1989Define culture.
  3. 3rd February 1989Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  4. 4th February 1989Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  5. 5th February 1989Define social mobility.
  6. 6th February 1989According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  7. 7th February 1989According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  8. 8th February 1989Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  9. 9th February 1989What is Sure Start?
  10. 10th February 1989What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  11. 11th February 1989How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  12. 12th February 1989Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  13. 13th February 1989Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  14. 14th February 1989Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  15. 15th February 1989State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  16. 16th February 1989Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  17. 17th February 1989Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  18. 18th February 1989What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  19. 19th February 1989Define intergenerational mobility.
  20. 20th February 1989What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  21. 21st February 1989Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  22. 22nd February 1989What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  23. 23rd February 1989What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  24. 24th February 1989What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  25. 25th February 1989How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  26. 26th February 1989According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  27. 27th February 1989Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  28. 28th February 1989Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?