Revision quiz 4

‘The proportion of the population that are reliant on the working population’ (eg. The young 0-14years and elderly 65+). 

• Underclass

• Welfare dependants

• Dependency Ratio

• Economic burden

 

Identify the sociologist that researched the change in girls aspirations, leading to an increase in girls achievement in education. 

• McRobbie

• Sharpe

• Norman

• Willis

What term? 

‘What is taught in school prioritises one culture over another’. 

• Ethnocentric curriculum

• Institutional racism

• Student subcultures

• Marketisation

 

What term: ‘Due to a standardised procedure, the method can be easily replicated’ 

• Validity

• Representative

• Objective

• Reliability

Postmodernist key term: 

The idea that the world has become more interconnected more than ever before. 

 

Becker argued the role of sociology was to take the side of the marginalised or less powerful in society. 

What word did he use to describe them? 

• The underclass

• The marginalised

• The underdog

• The outsiders

Glenny researched the rise in global crime networks, in particular those that established following the fall of communism and the the deregulation of industries. What did he call them? 

• McDonalds

• McRobbie

• McJobs

• McMafia

 

The name of the sociologist who research 'Women and Crime (1985) explained the concept of patriarchal control to explain why women are less likely to commit crime. 

• Carlen

• Heidensohn

• Messerschmidt

• Adler