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August 1996 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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August 1996

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st August 1996What is compensatory education?
  2. 2nd August 1996What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  3. 3rd August 1996Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  4. 4th August 1996Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  5. 5th August 1996Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  6. 6th August 1996What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  7. 7th August 1996What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  8. 8th August 1996Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  9. 9th August 1996Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  10. 10th August 1996What is the medical model of disability?
  11. 11th August 1996Define intragenerational mobility.
  12. 12th August 1996According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  13. 13th August 1996According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  14. 14th August 1996Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  15. 15th August 1996What is the Pupil Premium?
  16. 16th August 1996What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  17. 17th August 1996How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  18. 18th August 1996Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  19. 19th August 1996Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  20. 20th August 1996Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  21. 21st August 1996State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  22. 22nd August 1996Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  23. 23rd August 1996Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  24. 24th August 1996Define globalisation.
  25. 25th August 1996Give 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.
  26. 26th August 1996What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  27. 27th August 1996Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  28. 28th August 1996What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  29. 29th August 1996Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  30. 30th August 1996Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  31. 31st August 1996How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?