Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
February 1978 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1978What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 2nd February 1978Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 3rd February 1978Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 4th February 1978What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 5th February 1978Define intergenerational mobility.
- 6th February 1978According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 7th February 1978According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 8th February 1978Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 9th February 1978What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 10th February 1978What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 11th February 1978How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 12th February 1978Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 13th February 1978Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 14th February 1978Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 15th February 1978State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 16th February 1978What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 17th February 1978Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 18th February 1978What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 19th February 1978What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 20th February 1978What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 21st February 1978Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 22nd February 1978What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 23rd February 1978Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 24th February 1978What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 25th February 1978How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 26th February 1978According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 27th February 1978Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 28th February 1978Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?