Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 1982 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1982
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1982What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 2nd December 1982Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 3rd December 1982Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 4th December 1982What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 5th December 1982Define intergenerational mobility.
- 6th December 1982According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 7th December 1982According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 8th December 1982Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 9th December 1982What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 10th December 1982What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 11th December 1982How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 12th December 1982Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 13th December 1982Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 14th December 1982Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 15th December 1982State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 16th December 1982Define culture.
- 17th December 1982Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 18th December 1982What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 19th December 1982What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 20th December 1982What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 21st December 1982Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 22nd December 1982What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 23rd December 1982Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 24th December 1982What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 25th December 1982How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 26th December 1982According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 27th December 1982Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 28th December 1982Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 29th December 1982What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 30th December 1982Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 31st December 1982Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.