Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1956Define intergenerational mobility.
- 2nd April 1956Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 3rd April 1956What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 4th April 1956What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 5th April 1956What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 6th April 1956What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 7th April 1956Define 'forced marriage'.
- 8th April 1956Define 'cohabitation'.
- 9th April 1956According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 10th April 1956Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 11th April 1956What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 12th April 1956Define culture.
- 13th April 1956Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 14th April 1956What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 15th April 1956What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 16th April 1956Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 17th April 1956What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 18th April 1956Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 19th April 1956Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 20th April 1956What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 21st April 1956Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 22nd April 1956Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 23rd April 1956Describe the allowance system.
- 24th April 1956Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 25th April 1956Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 26th April 1956Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 27th April 1956Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 28th April 1956Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 29th April 1956What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 30th April 1956Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.