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October 1989 5-a-day

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October 1989

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 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.
  2. 2nd October 1989What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  3. 3rd October 1989What is 'secondary deviance'?
  4. 4th October 1989Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  5. 5th October 1989Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  6. 6th October 1989Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  7. 7th October 1989Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  8. 8th October 1989What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  9. 9th October 1989Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  10. 10th October 1989What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  11. 11th October 1989What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  12. 12th October 1989What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  13. 13th October 1989Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  14. 14th October 1989Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  15. 15th October 1989Define social mobility.
  16. 16th October 1989Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  17. 17th October 1989What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  18. 18th October 1989What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  19. 19th October 1989What is Sure Start?
  20. 20th October 1989What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  21. 21st October 1989Define 'forced marriage'.
  22. 22nd October 1989Define 'cohabitation'.
  23. 23rd October 1989According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  24. 24th October 1989Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  25. 25th October 1989What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  26. 26th October 1989A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  27. 27th October 1989Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  28. 28th October 1989What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  29. 29th October 1989Define intergenerational mobility.
  30. 30th October 1989Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  31. 31st October 1989What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?