Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology

November 1970 5-a-day

← Today's GCSE Sociology sheet

November 1970

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in November 1970

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

  1. 1st November 1970Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  2. 2nd November 1970Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  3. 3rd November 1970What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  4. 4th November 1970What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  5. 5th November 1970Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  6. 6th November 1970Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  7. 7th November 1970What is the medical model of disability?
  8. 8th November 1970Define intragenerational mobility.
  9. 9th November 1970According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  10. 10th November 1970According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  11. 11th November 1970Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  12. 12th November 1970What is the Pupil Premium?
  13. 13th November 1970What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  14. 14th November 1970How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  15. 15th November 1970Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  16. 16th November 1970Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  17. 17th November 1970Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  18. 18th November 1970State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  19. 19th November 1970Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  20. 20th November 1970Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  21. 21st November 1970Define globalisation.
  22. 22nd November 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.
  23. 23rd November 1970What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  24. 24th November 1970Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  25. 25th November 1970What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  26. 26th November 1970Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  27. 27th November 1970Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  28. 28th November 1970How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  29. 29th November 1970According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  30. 30th November 1970Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?