Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 1970 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1970
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1970Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 2nd August 1970What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 3rd August 1970According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 4th August 1970According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 5th August 1970Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 6th August 1970What is compensatory education?
- 7th August 1970What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 8th August 1970How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 9th August 1970Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 10th August 1970Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 11th August 1970Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 12th August 1970State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 13th August 1970What is primary socialisation?
- 14th August 1970Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 15th August 1970What is the medical model of disability?
- 16th August 1970Define intragenerational mobility.
- 17th August 1970What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 18th August 1970Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 19th August 1970What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 20th August 1970What is the Pupil Premium?
- 21st August 1970What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 22nd August 1970How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 23rd August 1970According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 24th August 1970Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 25th August 1970Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 26th August 1970What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 27th August 1970Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 28th August 1970Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 29th August 1970Define globalisation.
- 30th August 1970Give 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.
- 31st August 1970State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.