Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology

January 1983 5-a-day

← Today's GCSE Sociology sheet

January 1983

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in January 1983

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st January 1983Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  2. 2nd January 1983What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  3. 3rd January 1983State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  4. 4th January 1983What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  5. 5th January 1983What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  6. 6th January 1983What is compensatory education?
  7. 7th January 1983What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  8. 8th January 1983How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  9. 9th January 1983What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  10. 10th January 1983What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  11. 11th January 1983What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  12. 12th January 1983Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  13. 13th January 1983What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  14. 14th January 1983Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  15. 15th January 1983What is the medical model of disability?
  16. 16th January 1983Define intragenerational mobility.
  17. 17th January 1983What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  18. 18th January 1983What is 'secondary deviance'?
  19. 19th January 1983Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  20. 20th January 1983What is the Pupil Premium?
  21. 21st January 1983What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  22. 22nd January 1983Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  23. 23rd January 1983What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  24. 24th January 1983Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  25. 25th January 1983What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  26. 26th January 1983What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  27. 27th January 1983A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  28. 28th January 1983Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  29. 29th January 1983Define globalisation.
  30. 30th January 1983Give 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.
  31. 31st January 1983Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.