Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
March 1979 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1979Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 2nd March 1979Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 3rd March 1979Define globalisation.
- 4th March 1979Give 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.
- 5th March 1979According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 6th March 1979According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 7th March 1979Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 8th March 1979Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 9th March 1979Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 10th March 1979How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 11th March 1979Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 12th March 1979Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 13th March 1979Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 14th March 1979State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 15th March 1979What is primary socialisation?
- 16th March 1979Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 17th March 1979Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 18th March 1979Define social mobility.
- 19th March 1979What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 20th March 1979Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 21st March 1979What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 22nd March 1979What is Sure Start?
- 23rd March 1979What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 24th March 1979How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 25th March 1979According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 26th March 1979Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 27th March 1979Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 28th March 1979What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 29th March 1979Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 30th March 1979Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 31st March 1979What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?