Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 1962 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1962
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1962According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 2nd January 1962According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 3rd January 1962Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 4th January 1962What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 5th January 1962What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 6th January 1962How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 7th January 1962Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 8th January 1962Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 9th January 1962Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 10th January 1962State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 11th January 1962What is primary socialisation?
- 12th January 1962Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 13th January 1962What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 14th January 1962What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 15th January 1962What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 16th January 1962Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 17th January 1962What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 18th January 1962Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 19th January 1962What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 20th January 1962How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 21st January 1962According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 22nd January 1962Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 23rd January 1962Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 24th January 1962What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 25th January 1962Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 26th January 1962Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 27th January 1962Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 28th January 1962What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 29th January 1962State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 30th January 1962What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 31st January 1962What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?