Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
November 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1959Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 2nd November 1959Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 3rd November 1959What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 4th November 1959What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 5th November 1959Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 6th November 1959Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 7th November 1959Define globalisation.
- 8th November 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.
- 9th November 1959According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 10th November 1959According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 11th November 1959Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 12th November 1959Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 13th November 1959Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 14th November 1959How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 15th November 1959Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 16th November 1959Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 17th November 1959Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 18th November 1959State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 19th November 1959What is primary socialisation?
- 20th November 1959Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 21st November 1959Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 22nd November 1959Define social mobility.
- 23rd November 1959What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 24th November 1959Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 25th November 1959What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 26th November 1959What is Sure Start?
- 27th November 1959What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 28th November 1959How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 29th November 1959According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 30th November 1959Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?