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August 1989 5-a-day

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August 1989

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st August 1989Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  2. 2nd August 1989Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  3. 3rd August 1989Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  4. 4th August 1989Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  5. 5th August 1989What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  6. 6th August 1989Define intergenerational mobility.
  7. 7th August 1989Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  8. 8th August 1989What is 'primary deviance'?
  9. 9th August 1989How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  10. 10th August 1989What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  11. 11th August 1989What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  12. 12th August 1989Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  13. 13th August 1989Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  14. 14th August 1989Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  15. 15th August 1989What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  16. 16th August 1989What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  17. 17th August 1989What is primary socialisation?
  18. 18th August 1989Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  19. 19th August 1989What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  20. 20th August 1989What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  21. 21st August 1989According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  22. 22nd August 1989According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  23. 23rd August 1989Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  24. 24th August 1989Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  25. 25th August 1989What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  26. 26th August 1989How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  27. 27th August 1989Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  28. 28th August 1989Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  29. 29th August 1989Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  30. 30th August 1989State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  31. 31st August 1989Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.