Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 1981 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1981Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 2nd December 1981What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 3rd December 1981Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 4th December 1981Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 5th December 1981Define globalisation.
- 6th December 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.
- 7th December 1981State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 8th December 1981What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 9th December 1981What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 10th December 1981Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 11th December 1981Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 12th December 1981How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 13th December 1981What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 14th December 1981What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 15th December 1981What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 16th December 1981Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 17th December 1981What is primary socialisation?
- 18th December 1981Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 19th December 1981Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 20th December 1981Define social mobility.
- 21st December 1981What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 22nd December 1981What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 23rd December 1981Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 24th December 1981What is Sure Start?
- 25th December 1981What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 26th December 1981Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 27th December 1981What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 28th December 1981Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 29th December 1981What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 30th December 1981What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 31st December 1981Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.