Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 1981 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1981Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 2nd January 1981Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 3rd January 1981Define globalisation.
- 4th January 1981Give 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 January 1981Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 6th January 1981What is 'primary deviance'?
- 7th January 1981How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 8th January 1981Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 9th January 1981Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 10th January 1981Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 11th January 1981Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 12th January 1981Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 13th January 1981What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 14th January 1981What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 15th January 1981What is primary socialisation?
- 16th January 1981Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 17th January 1981Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 18th January 1981Define social mobility.
- 19th January 1981According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 20th January 1981According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 21st January 1981Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 22nd January 1981What is Sure Start?
- 23rd January 1981What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 24th January 1981How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 25th January 1981Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 26th January 1981Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 27th January 1981Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 28th January 1981State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 29th January 1981Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 30th January 1981Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 31st January 1981What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?