Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1955Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 2nd August 1955Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 3rd August 1955State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 4th August 1955What is primary socialisation?
- 5th August 1955Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 6th August 1955What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 7th August 1955What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 8th August 1955What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 9th August 1955Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 10th August 1955What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 11th August 1955Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 12th August 1955What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 13th August 1955How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 14th August 1955According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 15th August 1955Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 16th August 1955Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 17th August 1955What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 18th August 1955Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 19th August 1955Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 20th August 1955Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 21st August 1955What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 22nd August 1955State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 23rd August 1955What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 24th August 1955What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 25th August 1955What is compensatory education?
- 26th August 1955What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 27th August 1955How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 28th August 1955What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 29th August 1955What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 30th August 1955What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 31st August 1955Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.