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May 1990 5-a-day

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May 1990

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st May 1990What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  2. 2nd May 1990What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  3. 3rd May 1990Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  4. 4th May 1990What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  5. 5th May 1990Define 'forced marriage'.
  6. 6th May 1990Define 'cohabitation'.
  7. 7th May 1990According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  8. 8th May 1990Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  9. 9th May 1990What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  10. 10th May 1990Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  11. 11th May 1990Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  12. 12th May 1990Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  13. 13th May 1990What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  14. 14th May 1990Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  15. 15th May 1990What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  16. 16th May 1990Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  17. 17th May 1990What is compensatory education?
  18. 18th May 1990What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  19. 19th May 1990Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  20. 20th May 1990Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  21. 21st May 1990Describe the allowance system.
  22. 22nd May 1990Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  23. 23rd May 1990Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  24. 24th May 1990What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  25. 25th May 1990Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  26. 26th May 1990What is the medical model of disability?
  27. 27th May 1990Define intragenerational mobility.
  28. 28th May 1990Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  29. 29th May 1990What is 'primary deviance'?
  30. 30th May 1990How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  31. 31st May 1990What is the Pupil Premium?