Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1959Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 2nd December 1959What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 3rd December 1959Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 4th December 1959Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 5th December 1959What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 6th December 1959Define intergenerational mobility.
- 7th December 1959State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 8th December 1959What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 9th December 1959What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 10th December 1959What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 11th December 1959What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 12th December 1959How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 13th December 1959What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 14th December 1959What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 15th December 1959What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 16th December 1959Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 17th December 1959Define culture.
- 18th December 1959Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 19th December 1959What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 20th December 1959What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 21st December 1959What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 22nd December 1959What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 23rd December 1959Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 24th December 1959Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 25th December 1959What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 26th December 1959Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 27th December 1959What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 28th December 1959Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 29th December 1959What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 30th December 1959What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 31st December 1959Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.