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October 1991 5-a-day

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October 1991

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1991What is 'primary deviance'?
  2. 2nd October 1991How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  3. 3rd October 1991What is compensatory education?
  4. 4th October 1991What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  5. 5th October 1991Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  6. 6th October 1991Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  7. 7th October 1991Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  8. 8th October 1991What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  9. 9th October 1991What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  10. 10th October 1991What is primary socialisation?
  11. 11th October 1991Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  12. 12th October 1991What is the medical model of disability?
  13. 13th October 1991Define intragenerational mobility.
  14. 14th October 1991According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  15. 15th October 1991According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  16. 16th October 1991Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  17. 17th October 1991What is the Pupil Premium?
  18. 18th October 1991What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  19. 19th October 1991How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  20. 20th October 1991Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  21. 21st October 1991Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  22. 22nd October 1991Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  23. 23rd October 1991State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  24. 24th October 1991Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  25. 25th October 1991Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  26. 26th October 1991Define globalisation.
  27. 27th October 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.
  28. 28th October 1991What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  29. 29th October 1991Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  30. 30th October 1991What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  31. 31st October 1991Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.