Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 1984 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1984
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1984Give 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.
- 2nd January 1984According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 3rd January 1984According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 4th January 1984Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 5th January 1984Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 6th January 1984Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 7th January 1984How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 8th January 1984Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 9th January 1984Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 10th January 1984Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 11th January 1984State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 12th January 1984Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 13th January 1984Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 14th January 1984Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 15th January 1984Define social mobility.
- 16th January 1984What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 17th January 1984Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 18th January 1984What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 19th January 1984What is Sure Start?
- 20th January 1984What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 21st January 1984How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 22nd January 1984According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 23rd January 1984Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 24th January 1984Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 25th January 1984What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 26th January 1984Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 27th January 1984Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 28th January 1984What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 29th January 1984Define intergenerational mobility.
- 30th January 1984State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 31st January 1984What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?