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June 1990 5-a-day

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June 1990

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st June 1990What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  2. 2nd June 1990Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  3. 3rd June 1990Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  4. 4th June 1990Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  5. 5th June 1990What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  6. 6th June 1990What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  7. 7th June 1990A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  8. 8th June 1990Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  9. 9th June 1990Define globalisation.
  10. 10th June 1990Give 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.
  11. 11th June 1990According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  12. 12th June 1990According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  13. 13th June 1990Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  14. 14th June 1990Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  15. 15th June 1990Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  16. 16th June 1990How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  17. 17th June 1990Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  18. 18th June 1990Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  19. 19th June 1990Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  20. 20th June 1990State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  21. 21st June 1990Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  22. 22nd June 1990Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  23. 23rd June 1990Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  24. 24th June 1990Define social mobility.
  25. 25th June 1990What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  26. 26th June 1990Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  27. 27th June 1990What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  28. 28th June 1990What is Sure Start?
  29. 29th June 1990What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  30. 30th June 1990How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?