Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1959What is the medical model of disability?
- 2nd August 1959Define intragenerational mobility.
- 3rd August 1959According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 4th August 1959According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 5th August 1959Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 6th August 1959What is the Pupil Premium?
- 7th August 1959What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 8th August 1959How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 9th August 1959Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 10th August 1959Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 11th August 1959Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 12th August 1959State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 13th August 1959Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 14th August 1959Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 15th August 1959Define globalisation.
- 16th August 1959Give 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.
- 17th August 1959What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 18th August 1959Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 19th August 1959What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 20th August 1959Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 21st August 1959Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 22nd August 1959How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 23rd August 1959According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 24th August 1959Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 25th August 1959Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 26th August 1959What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 27th August 1959Define culture.
- 28th August 1959Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 29th August 1959Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 30th August 1959Define social mobility.
- 31st August 1959State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.