Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
February 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in February 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 1980Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 2nd February 1980Define globalisation.
- 3rd February 1980Give 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.
- 4th February 1980What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 5th February 1980What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 6th February 1980Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 7th February 1980Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 8th February 1980Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 9th February 1980Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 10th February 1980What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 11th February 1980Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 12th February 1980What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 13th February 1980What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 14th February 1980What is primary socialisation?
- 15th February 1980Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 16th February 1980Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 17th February 1980Define social mobility.
- 18th February 1980Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 19th February 1980What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 20th February 1980What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 21st February 1980What is Sure Start?
- 22nd February 1980What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 23rd February 1980Define 'forced marriage'.
- 24th February 1980Define 'cohabitation'.
- 25th February 1980According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 26th February 1980Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 27th February 1980What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 28th February 1980Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 29th February 1980Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?