Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology

April 1984 5-a-day

← Today's GCSE Sociology sheet

April 1984

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 1984

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

  1. 1st April 1984Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  2. 2nd April 1984Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  3. 3rd April 1984What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  4. 4th April 1984What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  5. 5th April 1984What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  6. 6th April 1984Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  7. 7th April 1984Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  8. 8th April 1984Define social mobility.
  9. 9th April 1984According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  10. 10th April 1984According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  11. 11th April 1984Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  12. 12th April 1984What is Sure Start?
  13. 13th April 1984What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  14. 14th April 1984How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  15. 15th April 1984Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  16. 16th April 1984Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  17. 17th April 1984Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  18. 18th April 1984State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  19. 19th April 1984A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  20. 20th April 1984Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  21. 21st April 1984What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  22. 22nd April 1984Define intergenerational mobility.
  23. 23rd April 1984What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  24. 24th April 1984Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  25. 25th April 1984What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  26. 26th April 1984What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  27. 27th April 1984What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  28. 28th April 1984How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  29. 29th April 1984According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  30. 30th April 1984Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?