Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
February 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1956What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 2nd February 1956A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 3rd February 1956Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 4th February 1956Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 5th February 1956What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 6th February 1956According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 7th February 1956According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 8th February 1956Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 9th February 1956What is compensatory education?
- 10th February 1956What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 11th February 1956How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 12th February 1956Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 13th February 1956Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 14th February 1956Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 15th February 1956State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 16th February 1956Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 17th February 1956Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 18th February 1956What is the medical model of disability?
- 19th February 1956Define intragenerational mobility.
- 20th February 1956What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 21st February 1956Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 22nd February 1956What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 23rd February 1956What is the Pupil Premium?
- 24th February 1956What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 25th February 1956How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 26th February 1956According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 27th February 1956Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 28th February 1956Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 29th February 1956What is meant by 'covert' observation?