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January 1995 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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January 1995

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1995Define intragenerational mobility.
  2. 2nd January 1995According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  3. 3rd January 1995According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  4. 4th January 1995Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  5. 5th January 1995What is the Pupil Premium?
  6. 6th January 1995What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  7. 7th January 1995How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  8. 8th January 1995Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  9. 9th January 1995Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  10. 10th January 1995Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  11. 11th January 1995State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  12. 12th January 1995A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  13. 13th January 1995Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  14. 14th January 1995Define globalisation.
  15. 15th January 1995Give 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.
  16. 16th January 1995What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  17. 17th January 1995Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  18. 18th January 1995What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  19. 19th January 1995Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  20. 20th January 1995Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  21. 21st January 1995How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  22. 22nd January 1995According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  23. 23rd January 1995Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  24. 24th January 1995Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  25. 25th January 1995What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  26. 26th January 1995Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  27. 27th January 1995Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  28. 28th January 1995Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  29. 29th January 1995Define social mobility.
  30. 30th January 1995State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  31. 31st January 1995What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?