Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 1981 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1981What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 2nd August 1981What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 3rd August 1981According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 4th August 1981According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 5th August 1981Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 6th August 1981Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 7th August 1981What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 8th August 1981How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 9th August 1981Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 10th August 1981Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 11th August 1981Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 12th August 1981State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 13th August 1981Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 14th August 1981Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 15th August 1981Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 16th August 1981What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 17th August 1981What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 18th August 1981Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 19th August 1981What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 20th August 1981What is compensatory education?
- 21st August 1981What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 22nd August 1981How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 23rd August 1981According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 24th August 1981Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 25th August 1981Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 26th August 1981What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 27th August 1981What is primary socialisation?
- 28th August 1981Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 29th August 1981What is the medical model of disability?
- 30th August 1981Define intragenerational mobility.
- 31st August 1981State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.