Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 1961 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1961
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1961Give 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.
- 2nd January 1961State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 3rd January 1961What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 4th January 1961What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 5th January 1961Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 6th January 1961Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 7th January 1961How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 8th January 1961What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 9th January 1961What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 10th January 1961What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 11th January 1961Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 12th January 1961Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 13th January 1961Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 14th January 1961Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 15th January 1961Define social mobility.
- 16th January 1961What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 17th January 1961What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 18th January 1961Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 19th January 1961What is Sure Start?
- 20th January 1961What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 21st January 1961Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 22nd January 1961What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 23rd January 1961Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 24th January 1961What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 25th January 1961What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 26th January 1961Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 27th January 1961Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 28th January 1961What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 29th January 1961Define intergenerational mobility.
- 30th January 1961Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 31st January 1961What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?