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September 1964 5-a-day

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September 1964

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st September 1964What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  2. 2nd September 1964What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  3. 3rd September 1964A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  4. 4th September 1964Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  5. 5th September 1964Define globalisation.
  6. 6th September 1964Give 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.
  7. 7th September 1964According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  8. 8th September 1964According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  9. 9th September 1964Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  10. 10th September 1964Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  11. 11th September 1964Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  12. 12th September 1964How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  13. 13th September 1964Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  14. 14th September 1964Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  15. 15th September 1964Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  16. 16th September 1964State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  17. 17th September 1964Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  18. 18th September 1964Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  19. 19th September 1964Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  20. 20th September 1964Define social mobility.
  21. 21st September 1964What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  22. 22nd September 1964Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  23. 23rd September 1964What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  24. 24th September 1964What is Sure Start?
  25. 25th September 1964What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  26. 26th September 1964How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  27. 27th September 1964According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  28. 28th September 1964Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  29. 29th September 1964Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  30. 30th September 1964What is meant by 'covert' observation?