642 free study cards across 7 topics, written to the AQA specification. Study them as flashcards or multiple choice, and rate each one Got it, Almost or Forgot.
Every card is tagged to a topic in the AQA GCSE Sociology specification, so you can revise one topic at a time.
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What do sociologists mean by deviance?
Behaviour that breaks the norms and expectations of a group or society and attracts a negative reaction, though it may not be illegal.
Norms are the rules for behaviour in a situation; values are the wider beliefs about what matters. Deviance is judged against norms, so it varies by situation.
What is an unstructured interview?
An informal, guided conversation with no fixed schedule. The interviewer starts from a topic and follows up whatever the respondent says.
Unstructured interviews build rapport and produce detailed qualitative data with high validity, but each one is different, so they are low in reliability and cannot easily be repeated or compared.
What is a social issue?
A problem that affects large numbers of people, has social causes rather than purely individual ones, and needs a collective or policy solution.
Social issues are widely seen as harmful and in need of action. Examples used at GCSE include poverty, crime, unemployment and educational underachievement.
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