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April 1991 5-a-day

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April 1991

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st April 1991According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  2. 2nd April 1991According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  3. 3rd April 1991Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  4. 4th April 1991Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  5. 5th April 1991What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  6. 6th April 1991How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  7. 7th April 1991Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  8. 8th April 1991Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  9. 9th April 1991Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  10. 10th April 1991State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  11. 11th April 1991Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  12. 12th April 1991Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  13. 13th April 1991Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  14. 14th April 1991What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  15. 15th April 1991What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  16. 16th April 1991Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  17. 17th April 1991What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  18. 18th April 1991What is compensatory education?
  19. 19th April 1991What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  20. 20th April 1991How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  21. 21st April 1991According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  22. 22nd April 1991Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  23. 23rd April 1991Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  24. 24th April 1991What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  25. 25th April 1991What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  26. 26th April 1991Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  27. 27th April 1991What is the medical model of disability?
  28. 28th April 1991Define intragenerational mobility.
  29. 29th April 1991State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  30. 30th April 1991What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?