Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1955Define intergenerational mobility.
- 2nd May 1955What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 3rd May 1955Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 4th May 1955What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 5th May 1955What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 6th May 1955What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 7th May 1955How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 8th May 1955According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 9th May 1955Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 10th May 1955Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 11th May 1955What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 12th May 1955Define culture.
- 13th May 1955Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 14th May 1955What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 15th May 1955What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 16th May 1955State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 17th May 1955What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 18th May 1955What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 19th May 1955Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 20th May 1955What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 21st May 1955How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 22nd May 1955What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 23rd May 1955What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 24th May 1955What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 25th May 1955Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 26th May 1955Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 27th May 1955Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 28th May 1955Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 29th May 1955What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 30th May 1955What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 31st May 1955What is 'secondary deviance'?