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October 1996 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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October 1996

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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  1. 1st October 1996What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  2. 2nd October 1996What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  3. 3rd October 1996Define culture.
  4. 4th October 1996Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  5. 5th October 1996What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  6. 6th October 1996What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  7. 7th October 1996Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  8. 8th October 1996What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  9. 9th October 1996What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  10. 10th October 1996Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  11. 11th October 1996What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  12. 12th October 1996Define 'forced marriage'.
  13. 13th October 1996Define 'cohabitation'.
  14. 14th October 1996According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  15. 15th October 1996Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  16. 16th October 1996What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  17. 17th October 1996Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  18. 18th October 1996Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  19. 19th October 1996Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  20. 20th October 1996What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  21. 21st October 1996Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  22. 22nd October 1996What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  23. 23rd October 1996Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  24. 24th October 1996What is compensatory education?
  25. 25th October 1996What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  26. 26th October 1996Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  27. 27th October 1996Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  28. 28th October 1996Describe the allowance system.
  29. 29th October 1996Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  30. 30th October 1996Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  31. 31st October 1996What is the difference between a norm and a value?