Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 1978 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1978Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 2nd May 1978What is 'primary deviance'?
- 3rd May 1978How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 4th May 1978What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 5th May 1978What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 6th May 1978Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 7th May 1978Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 8th May 1978Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 9th May 1978What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 10th May 1978What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 11th May 1978Define culture.
- 12th May 1978Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 13th May 1978What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 14th May 1978What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 15th May 1978According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 16th May 1978According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 17th May 1978Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 18th May 1978Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 19th May 1978What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 20th May 1978How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 21st May 1978Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 22nd May 1978Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 23rd May 1978Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 24th May 1978State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 25th May 1978Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 26th May 1978Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 27th May 1978Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 28th May 1978What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 29th May 1978What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 30th May 1978Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 31st May 1978What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?