Flashcards

Key terms and definitions for each topic as flip cards, with spaced repetition saved in your browser. Each card carries a tip on how to use the term in an answer. On the AS papers a precise definition is worth 2 marks, and at A level the same precision is what lifts an outline point from 1 mark to 2. Decks for the remaining topics are being written; the define-it drill already covers every real definition question.

Topic	Terms	Drill
Childhood	12 terms	Define it
Differential educational achievement	12 terms	Define it
Educational policy	12 terms	Define it
Globalisation, green crime and state crime	12 terms	Define it
Marriage, divorce and family diversity	12 terms	Define it
Positivism and interpretivism	12 terms	Define it
Processes within schools	12 terms	Define it
Research methods	12 terms	Define it
Role of education	12 terms	Define it
Secularisation	12 terms	Define it
The social distribution of crime	12 terms	Define it
Theories of crime and social control	12 terms	Define it

How to use them

Say the answer out loud before you flip. Then be honest with "Knew it" or "Didn't know it": the cards you miss come back every round, the ones you know come back less often.
A definition that would score 2 marks in the exam is the target: the term's meaning in one precise sentence, in the words sociologists use, with a short example only where the question asks for one.
"Print all" on any deck gives you paper cards.

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