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6. In what year was the Education Reform Act, which brought in a national curriculum and national testing at 7, 11 and 14?

  • 1984
  • 1988
  • 1986
  • 1980

7. What was the name given to signify post-war consensus between governments?

  • Butler-Gaitskellism
  • Butskellism
  • Sketlerism
  • Gaitlerism

8. In what year was education made free and compulsory for those under 15?

  • 1944
  • 1945
  • 1946
  • 1942

9. Which of the following is not a way in which the state provides welfare?

  • Regulation (universal)
  • Provision (selective and unequal)
  • Direction (universal)
  • Taxation (selective and unequal)

10. In what year and in what report did researches assess Blair's welfare state as 'a nanny'state which overtaxed the middle classes and sustained an 'underclass''?

  • 2007 Freud Report
  • 2005 Friend Report
  • 2005 Freud Report
  • 2007 Friend Report

11. In 2002 Inland revenue said which type of welfare system (Titmuss) is the 'carrot for a change in behaviour'?

  • Occupational
  • Fiscal
  • Social/Public

12. Who says that 'as man becomes more individual and more specialised he becomes more socially dependent'?

  • Durkeim
  • Titmuss
  • Daly
  • Lucey

13. What does Titmuss call a welfare state with high use of Social Assistance?

  • Poverty Alleviating
  • Residual
  • Means-tested
  • Failed

14. By what percentage did the number of Direct contribution pension schemes rise between 2000 and 2005?

  • 13%
  • 30%
  • 10%
  • 5%

15. What percentage of the vote did Labour win in 1945 on their manifesto pledge to create a socialist society which would be 'free, democratic, efficient, progressive and public spirited'?

  • 52%
  • 48%
  • 45%
  • 58%

16. Fill in the blanks: Marshall's definition of social citizenship: 'the right to a modicum of x welfare and security... the right to share in the full x heritage and to life the life of a x being according to the standards prevailing in that society'.

  • civilized, social, economic
  • economic, social, civilized
  • social, economic, civilized
  • social, civilized, economic

17. Is occupational welfare regressive or progressive

  • regressive
  • progressive

18. Who said 'Such is the tyranny of stereotypes today that this idea of a welfare society... may paradoxically widen rather than narrow class relationships'?

  • Titmuss
  • Reay and Lucey
  • Marshall
  • Gerth and Mills

19. Which of the following is not one of the giant social evils in the Beveridge Report?

  • Squalor
  • Poverty
  • Disease
  • Ignorance
  • Idleness
  • Want

20. Who finds that earnings of those born in 1970 are more closely related to the income of their parents as compared with those born in 1958?

  • Mann
  • Marshall
  • Daly
  • Wilkinson