Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1980Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 2nd January 1980State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 3rd January 1980A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 4th January 1980Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 5th January 1980Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 6th January 1980What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 7th January 1980What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 8th January 1980Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 9th January 1980What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 10th January 1980What is compensatory education?
- 11th January 1980What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 12th January 1980How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 13th January 1980According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 14th January 1980Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 15th January 1980Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 16th January 1980What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 17th January 1980Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 18th January 1980Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 19th January 1980What is the medical model of disability?
- 20th January 1980Define intragenerational mobility.
- 21st January 1980State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 22nd January 1980What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 23rd January 1980What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 24th January 1980What is the Pupil Premium?
- 25th January 1980What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 26th January 1980How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 27th January 1980What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 28th January 1980What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 29th January 1980What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 30th January 1980Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 31st January 1980Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.