Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 1978 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1978
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1978What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 2nd December 1978How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 3rd December 1978Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 4th December 1978Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 5th December 1978Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 6th December 1978State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 7th December 1978Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 8th December 1978Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 9th December 1978Define globalisation.
- 10th December 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.
- 11th December 1978What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 12th December 1978Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 13th December 1978What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 14th December 1978Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 15th December 1978Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 16th December 1978How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 17th December 1978According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 18th December 1978Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 19th December 1978Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 20th December 1978What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 21st December 1978Define culture.
- 22nd December 1978Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 23rd December 1978Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 24th December 1978Define social mobility.
- 25th December 1978State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 26th December 1978What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 27th December 1978What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 28th December 1978What is Sure Start?
- 29th December 1978What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 30th December 1978How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 31st December 1978What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?