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January 1992 5-a-day

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January 1992

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1992Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  2. 2nd January 1992Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  3. 3rd January 1992Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  4. 4th January 1992What is the medical model of disability?
  5. 5th January 1992Define intragenerational mobility.
  6. 6th January 1992Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  7. 7th January 1992What is 'primary deviance'?
  8. 8th January 1992How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  9. 9th January 1992What is the Pupil Premium?
  10. 10th January 1992What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  11. 11th January 1992Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  12. 12th January 1992Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  13. 13th January 1992Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  14. 14th January 1992What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  15. 15th January 1992What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  16. 16th January 1992Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  17. 17th January 1992Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  18. 18th January 1992Define globalisation.
  19. 19th January 1992Give 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.
  20. 20th January 1992According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  21. 21st January 1992According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  22. 22nd January 1992Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  23. 23rd January 1992Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  24. 24th January 1992Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  25. 25th January 1992How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  26. 26th January 1992Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  27. 27th January 1992Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  28. 28th January 1992Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  29. 29th January 1992State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  30. 30th January 1992What is primary socialisation?
  31. 31st January 1992Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?