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August 1991 5-a-day

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August 1991

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st August 1991Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  2. 2nd August 1991Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  3. 3rd August 1991Define globalisation.
  4. 4th August 1991Give 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.
  5. 5th August 1991State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  6. 6th August 1991What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  7. 7th August 1991What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  8. 8th August 1991Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  9. 9th August 1991Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  10. 10th August 1991How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  11. 11th August 1991What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  12. 12th August 1991What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  13. 13th August 1991What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  14. 14th August 1991Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  15. 15th August 1991What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  16. 16th August 1991Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  17. 17th August 1991Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  18. 18th August 1991Define social mobility.
  19. 19th August 1991What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  20. 20th August 1991What is 'secondary deviance'?
  21. 21st August 1991Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  22. 22nd August 1991What is Sure Start?
  23. 23rd August 1991What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  24. 24th August 1991Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  25. 25th August 1991What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  26. 26th August 1991Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  27. 27th August 1991What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  28. 28th August 1991What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  29. 29th August 1991A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  30. 30th August 1991Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  31. 31st August 1991What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?