Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1955Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 2nd January 1955Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 3rd January 1955Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 4th January 1955What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 5th January 1955What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 6th January 1955Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 7th January 1955Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 8th January 1955Define globalisation.
- 9th January 1955Give 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.
- 10th January 1955According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 11th January 1955According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 12th January 1955Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 13th January 1955Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 14th January 1955Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 15th January 1955How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 16th January 1955Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 17th January 1955Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 18th January 1955Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 19th January 1955State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 20th January 1955Define culture.
- 21st January 1955Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 22nd January 1955Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 23rd January 1955Define social mobility.
- 24th January 1955What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 25th January 1955Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 26th January 1955What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 27th January 1955What is Sure Start?
- 28th January 1955What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 29th January 1955How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 30th January 1955According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 31st January 1955Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?