Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 1955 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1955
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1955Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 2nd October 1955Define social mobility.
- 3rd October 1955Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 4th October 1955What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 5th October 1955Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 6th October 1955What is Sure Start?
- 7th October 1955What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 8th October 1955Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 9th October 1955Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 10th October 1955Describe the allowance system.
- 11th October 1955Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 12th October 1955Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 13th October 1955A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 14th October 1955Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 15th October 1955What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 16th October 1955Define intergenerational mobility.
- 17th October 1955Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 18th October 1955What is 'primary deviance'?
- 19th October 1955How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 20th October 1955What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 21st October 1955What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 22nd October 1955Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 23rd October 1955Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 24th October 1955Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 25th October 1955What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 26th October 1955What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 27th October 1955Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 28th October 1955Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 29th October 1955What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 30th October 1955What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 31st October 1955According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?