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December 1989 5-a-day

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December 1989

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1989What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  2. 2nd December 1989How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  3. 3rd December 1989Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  4. 4th December 1989Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  5. 5th December 1989Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  6. 6th December 1989State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  7. 7th December 1989What is primary socialisation?
  8. 8th December 1989Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  9. 9th December 1989What is the medical model of disability?
  10. 10th December 1989Define intragenerational mobility.
  11. 11th December 1989What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  12. 12th December 1989Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  13. 13th December 1989What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  14. 14th December 1989What is the Pupil Premium?
  15. 15th December 1989What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  16. 16th December 1989How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  17. 17th December 1989According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  18. 18th December 1989Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  19. 19th December 1989Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  20. 20th December 1989What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  21. 21st December 1989Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  22. 22nd December 1989Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  23. 23rd December 1989Define globalisation.
  24. 24th December 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.
  25. 25th December 1989State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  26. 26th December 1989What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  27. 27th December 1989What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  28. 28th December 1989Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  29. 29th December 1989Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  30. 30th December 1989How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  31. 31st December 1989What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?