Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 1980 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1980
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1980Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 2nd December 1980What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 3rd December 1980What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 4th December 1980A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 5th December 1980Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 6th December 1980Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 7th December 1980What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 8th December 1980Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 9th December 1980What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 10th December 1980What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 11th December 1980What is compensatory education?
- 12th December 1980What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 13th December 1980Define 'forced marriage'.
- 14th December 1980Define 'cohabitation'.
- 15th December 1980According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 16th December 1980Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 17th December 1980What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 18th December 1980Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 19th December 1980Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 20th December 1980What is the medical model of disability?
- 21st December 1980Define intragenerational mobility.
- 22nd December 1980Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 23rd December 1980What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 24th December 1980Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 25th December 1980What is the Pupil Premium?
- 26th December 1980What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 27th December 1980Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 28th December 1980Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 29th December 1980Describe the allowance system.
- 30th December 1980Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 31st December 1980Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.