Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
February 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1955Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 2nd February 1955What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 3rd February 1955Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 4th February 1955Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 5th February 1955What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 6th February 1955Define intergenerational mobility.
- 7th February 1955State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 8th February 1955What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 9th February 1955What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 10th February 1955What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 11th February 1955What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 12th February 1955How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 13th February 1955What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 14th February 1955What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 15th February 1955What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 16th February 1955Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 17th February 1955What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 18th February 1955Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 19th February 1955What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 20th February 1955What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 21st February 1955What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 22nd February 1955What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 23rd February 1955Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 24th February 1955Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 25th February 1955What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 26th February 1955Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 27th February 1955What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 28th February 1955Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.