Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 1957 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1957
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1957Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 2nd December 1957Describe the allowance system.
- 3rd December 1957Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 4th December 1957Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 5th December 1957A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 6th December 1957Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 7th December 1957Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 8th December 1957What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 9th December 1957Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 10th December 1957What is 'primary deviance'?
- 11th December 1957How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 12th December 1957What is compensatory education?
- 13th December 1957What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 14th December 1957Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 15th December 1957Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 16th December 1957Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 17th December 1957What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 18th December 1957What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 19th December 1957Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 20th December 1957Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 21st December 1957What is the medical model of disability?
- 22nd December 1957Define intragenerational mobility.
- 23rd December 1957According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 24th December 1957According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 25th December 1957Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 26th December 1957What is the Pupil Premium?
- 27th December 1957What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 28th December 1957How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 29th December 1957Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 30th December 1957Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 31st December 1957Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?