Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 1963 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1963What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 2nd October 1963What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 3rd October 1963A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 4th October 1963Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 5th October 1963Define globalisation.
- 6th October 1963Give 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.
- 7th October 1963Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 8th October 1963What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 9th October 1963What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 10th October 1963Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 11th October 1963Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 12th October 1963Define 'forced marriage'.
- 13th October 1963Define 'cohabitation'.
- 14th October 1963According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 15th October 1963Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 16th October 1963What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 17th October 1963Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 18th October 1963Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 19th October 1963Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 20th October 1963Define social mobility.
- 21st October 1963Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 22nd October 1963What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 23rd October 1963Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 24th October 1963What is Sure Start?
- 25th October 1963What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 26th October 1963Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 27th October 1963Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 28th October 1963Describe the allowance system.
- 29th October 1963Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 30th October 1963Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 31st October 1963Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.