Keyterms

• A-C economy?


  a system where schools focus of pupils they believe are most likely to gain 5 A-C grades and boost the schools position in the league table
• Ageism?


  negative stereotyping of people based off their age for example the elder are incompetent and a burden in society
• Alienation?


  when an individual or group realise the lack of power and control they have on their own lives and realise their full potential. As a result they fell isolated from society
• Assimilationism?


  an approach to immigartion policy which be,Ives immigrants should pick up language and values of “host community”
• Banding?


  a form of streaming
• Beanpole family?


  a family consisting of lots of generations however it is not horizontally extended. Eg grandparents parents and children
• Childhood?


  a socially defined age status. Western societies today consider children vulnerable and segregate them from adult life however in the past they were part of adult society from an early age
• Civil partnership?


  the 2004 civil partnership act gave same sex couples similar rights to married couples in respect of inheritance, property and pensions. This was only extended to all couples in 2019
• Closed ended questions?


  questions used in a social survey that only allow s limited choice of answers from a preset list. This produces quantitative data.