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December 1990 5-a-day

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December 1990

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st December 1990Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  2. 2nd December 1990Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  3. 3rd December 1990Describe the allowance system.
  4. 4th December 1990Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  5. 5th December 1990Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  6. 6th December 1990Define culture.
  7. 7th December 1990Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  8. 8th December 1990Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  9. 9th December 1990Define social mobility.
  10. 10th December 1990Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  11. 11th December 1990What is 'primary deviance'?
  12. 12th December 1990How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  13. 13th December 1990What is Sure Start?
  14. 14th December 1990What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  15. 15th December 1990Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  16. 16th December 1990Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  17. 17th December 1990Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  18. 18th December 1990What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  19. 19th December 1990What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  20. 20th December 1990Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  21. 21st December 1990Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  22. 22nd December 1990What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  23. 23rd December 1990Define intergenerational mobility.
  24. 24th December 1990According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  25. 25th December 1990According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  26. 26th December 1990Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  27. 27th December 1990What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  28. 28th December 1990What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  29. 29th December 1990How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  30. 30th December 1990Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  31. 31st December 1990Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?