Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
November 1953 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1953
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1953Define intragenerational mobility.
- 2nd November 1953Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 3rd November 1953What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 4th November 1953What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 5th November 1953What is the Pupil Premium?
- 6th November 1953What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 7th November 1953Define 'forced marriage'.
- 8th November 1953Define 'cohabitation'.
- 9th November 1953According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 10th November 1953Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 11th November 1953What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 12th November 1953Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 13th November 1953Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 14th November 1953Define globalisation.
- 15th November 1953Give one reason why absolute mobility in the UK rose during the 20th century even without the class system becoming much more open in relative terms.
- 16th November 1953Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 17th November 1953What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 18th November 1953Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 19th November 1953Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 20th November 1953Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 21st November 1953Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 22nd November 1953Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 23rd November 1953Describe the allowance system.
- 24th November 1953Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 25th November 1953Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 26th November 1953What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 27th November 1953Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 28th November 1953Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 29th November 1953Define social mobility.
- 30th November 1953Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.