Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1960Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 2nd December 1960Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 3rd December 1960Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 4th December 1960What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 5th December 1960According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 6th December 1960According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 7th December 1960Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 8th December 1960What is compensatory education?
- 9th December 1960What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 10th December 1960How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 11th December 1960Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 12th December 1960Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 13th December 1960Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 14th December 1960State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 15th December 1960What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 16th December 1960Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 17th December 1960What is the medical model of disability?
- 18th December 1960Define intragenerational mobility.
- 19th December 1960What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 20th December 1960Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 21st December 1960What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 22nd December 1960What is the Pupil Premium?
- 23rd December 1960What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 24th December 1960How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 25th December 1960According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 26th December 1960Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 27th December 1960Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 28th December 1960What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 29th December 1960A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 30th December 1960Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 31st December 1960Define globalisation.