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Key facts
Education is the institution that teaches people knowledge and skills, mainly through schools.
Sociologists believe most human behaviour is learned through family, school, friends and the media, not inherited.
Culture is the shared way of life of a group of people, including their beliefs, customs and language.
Criminal law deals with people who commit offences like theft, while civil law deals with disputes between people or groups.
Sociologists use evidence and research, not just personal opinion, to reach conclusions.
The family is an institution that raises children and gives people care and support.
Most experts agree that both nature and nurture work together to shape who a person becomes.
The family is usually the first place a child learns norms and values, before school and friends.
Judges and magistrates decide the punishment when someone breaks the law.
Psychology mainly studies the individual mind, while sociology studies whole groups and society.
Sample questions
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Which of these best describes a primary group?
- •A group people join only to win prizes and rewards
- •A large crowd of strangers waiting at a bus stop together
- ✓A small group with close, personal relationships like a family
- •The single most important and powerful group in society
In the nature vs nurture debate, what does "nature" mainly refer to?
- •The countryside and the natural environment around us
- •The hobbies and interests we choose for ourselves
- •The kind way we treat plants and animals
- ✓The things we are born with, like our genes
Which best describes a society's values?
- ✓The big ideas a society thinks are important
- •The everyday unwritten rules about behaving
- •The punishments given for breaking rules
- •The traditions passed down through generations
What is the main difference between a rule and a law?
- ✓A law applies to the whole country and everyone must obey it
- •A law can be changed by any single person whenever they want
- •A law is just a polite suggestion that people can choose to ignore
- •A law only applies inside schools and never anywhere else
Which best describes what sociology studies?
- •How machines and computers are built
- ✓How people live together in groups in society
- •How plants and animals grow in the wild
- •How the human body fights illness
Which of these is a feature of a formal group?
- •It forms by accident among strangers who never speak
- •It is always smaller than any informal group is
- ✓It is officially organised with set roles and rules
- •It only exists during the school summer holidays
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