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January 1996 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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January 1996

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st January 1996Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  2. 2nd January 1996What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  3. 3rd January 1996Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  4. 4th January 1996What is Sure Start?
  5. 5th January 1996What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  6. 6th January 1996Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  7. 7th January 1996Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  8. 8th January 1996Describe the allowance system.
  9. 9th January 1996Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  10. 10th January 1996Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  11. 11th January 1996Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  12. 12th January 1996Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  13. 13th January 1996What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  14. 14th January 1996Define intergenerational mobility.
  15. 15th January 1996Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  16. 16th January 1996What is 'primary deviance'?
  17. 17th January 1996How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  18. 18th January 1996What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  19. 19th January 1996What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  20. 20th January 1996Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  21. 21st January 1996Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  22. 22nd January 1996Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  23. 23rd January 1996What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  24. 24th January 1996What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  25. 25th January 1996What is primary socialisation?
  26. 26th January 1996Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  27. 27th January 1996What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  28. 28th January 1996What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  29. 29th January 1996According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  30. 30th January 1996According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  31. 31st January 1996Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.