Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 1978 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1978Define globalisation.
- 2nd April 1978Give 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.
- 3rd April 1978Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 4th April 1978What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 5th April 1978What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 6th April 1978Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 7th April 1978Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 8th April 1978Define 'forced marriage'.
- 9th April 1978Define 'cohabitation'.
- 10th April 1978According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 11th April 1978Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 12th April 1978What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 13th April 1978What is primary socialisation?
- 14th April 1978Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 15th April 1978Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 16th April 1978Define social mobility.
- 17th April 1978Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 18th April 1978What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 19th April 1978Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 20th April 1978What is Sure Start?
- 21st April 1978What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 22nd April 1978Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 23rd April 1978Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 24th April 1978Describe the allowance system.
- 25th April 1978Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 26th April 1978Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 27th April 1978Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 28th April 1978Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 29th April 1978What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 30th April 1978Define intergenerational mobility.