Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
June 1953 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1953
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1953According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 2nd June 1953According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 3rd June 1953Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 4th June 1953Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 5th June 1953Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 6th June 1953How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 7th June 1953Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 8th June 1953Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 9th June 1953Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 10th June 1953State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 11th June 1953What is primary socialisation?
- 12th June 1953Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 13th June 1953Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 14th June 1953Define social mobility.
- 15th June 1953What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 16th June 1953Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 17th June 1953What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 18th June 1953What is Sure Start?
- 19th June 1953What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 20th June 1953How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 21st June 1953According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 22nd June 1953Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 23rd June 1953Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 24th June 1953What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 25th June 1953Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 26th June 1953Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 27th June 1953What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 28th June 1953Define intergenerational mobility.
- 29th June 1953State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 30th June 1953What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?