Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1959Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 2nd April 1959What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 3rd April 1959What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 4th April 1959Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 5th April 1959Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 6th April 1959Describe the allowance system.
- 7th April 1959Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 8th April 1959Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 9th April 1959What is primary socialisation?
- 10th April 1959Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 11th April 1959What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 12th April 1959What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 13th April 1959Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 14th April 1959What is 'primary deviance'?
- 15th April 1959How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 16th April 1959Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 17th April 1959What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 18th April 1959Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 19th April 1959Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 20th April 1959Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 21st April 1959What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 22nd April 1959What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 23rd April 1959Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 24th April 1959Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 25th April 1959Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 26th April 1959What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 27th April 1959According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 28th April 1959According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 29th April 1959Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 30th April 1959What is compensatory education?