Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 1957 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1957
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1957What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 2nd August 1957Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 3rd August 1957Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 4th August 1957Define social mobility.
- 5th August 1957Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 6th August 1957What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 7th August 1957What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 8th August 1957What is Sure Start?
- 9th August 1957What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 10th August 1957Define 'forced marriage'.
- 11th August 1957Define 'cohabitation'.
- 12th August 1957According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 13th August 1957Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 14th August 1957What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 15th August 1957A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 16th August 1957Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 17th August 1957What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 18th August 1957Define intergenerational mobility.
- 19th August 1957Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 20th August 1957What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 21st August 1957Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 22nd August 1957What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 23rd August 1957What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 24th August 1957Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 25th August 1957Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 26th August 1957Describe the allowance system.
- 27th August 1957Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 28th August 1957Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 29th August 1957Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 30th August 1957Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 31st August 1957What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?