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July 1995 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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July 1995

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  1. 1st July 1995Define globalisation.
  2. 2nd July 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.
  3. 3rd July 1995Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  4. 4th July 1995What is 'primary deviance'?
  5. 5th July 1995How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  6. 6th July 1995Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  7. 7th July 1995Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  8. 8th July 1995Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  9. 9th July 1995Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  10. 10th July 1995Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  11. 11th July 1995What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  12. 12th July 1995What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  13. 13th July 1995Define culture.
  14. 14th July 1995Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  15. 15th July 1995Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  16. 16th July 1995Define social mobility.
  17. 17th July 1995According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  18. 18th July 1995According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  19. 19th July 1995Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  20. 20th July 1995What is Sure Start?
  21. 21st July 1995What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  22. 22nd July 1995How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  23. 23rd July 1995Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  24. 24th July 1995Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  25. 25th July 1995Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  26. 26th July 1995State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  27. 27th July 1995Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  28. 28th July 1995Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  29. 29th July 1995What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  30. 30th July 1995Define intergenerational mobility.
  31. 31st July 1995What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?