Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 1956 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1956
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1956Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 2nd August 1956Define culture.
- 3rd August 1956Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 4th August 1956What is the medical model of disability?
- 5th August 1956Define intragenerational mobility.
- 6th August 1956Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 7th August 1956What is 'primary deviance'?
- 8th August 1956How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 9th August 1956What is the Pupil Premium?
- 10th August 1956What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 11th August 1956Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 12th August 1956Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 13th August 1956Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 14th August 1956What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 15th August 1956What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 16th August 1956Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 17th August 1956Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 18th August 1956Define globalisation.
- 19th August 1956Give one reason why absolute mobility in the UK rose during the 20th century even without the class system becoming much more open in relative terms.
- 20th August 1956According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 21st August 1956According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 22nd August 1956Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 23rd August 1956Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 24th August 1956Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 25th August 1956How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 26th August 1956Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 27th August 1956Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 28th August 1956Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 29th August 1956State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 30th August 1956What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 31st August 1956Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.