Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
March 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1955What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 2nd March 1955What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 3rd March 1955A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 4th March 1955Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 5th March 1955Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 6th March 1955What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 7th March 1955Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 8th March 1955What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 9th March 1955What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 10th March 1955What is compensatory education?
- 11th March 1955What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 12th March 1955Define 'forced marriage'.
- 13th March 1955Define 'cohabitation'.
- 14th March 1955According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 15th March 1955Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 16th March 1955What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 17th March 1955Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 18th March 1955Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 19th March 1955What is the medical model of disability?
- 20th March 1955Define intragenerational mobility.
- 21st March 1955Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 22nd March 1955What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 23rd March 1955Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 24th March 1955What is the Pupil Premium?
- 25th March 1955What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 26th March 1955Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 27th March 1955Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 28th March 1955Describe the allowance system.
- 29th March 1955Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 30th March 1955Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 31st March 1955Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.