Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1955Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 2nd April 1955Define globalisation.
- 3rd April 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.
- 4th April 1955Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 5th April 1955What is 'primary deviance'?
- 6th April 1955How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 7th April 1955Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 8th April 1955Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 9th April 1955Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 10th April 1955Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 11th April 1955Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 12th April 1955What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 13th April 1955What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 14th April 1955What is primary socialisation?
- 15th April 1955Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 16th April 1955Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 17th April 1955Define social mobility.
- 18th April 1955According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 19th April 1955According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 20th April 1955Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 21st April 1955What is Sure Start?
- 22nd April 1955What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 23rd April 1955How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 24th April 1955Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 25th April 1955Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 26th April 1955Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 27th April 1955State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 28th April 1955Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 29th April 1955Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 30th April 1955What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?