Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 1984 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1984
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1984Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 2nd May 1984What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 3rd May 1984Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 4th May 1984Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 5th May 1984What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 6th May 1984What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 7th May 1984State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 8th May 1984What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 9th May 1984What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 10th May 1984Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 11th May 1984What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 12th May 1984How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 13th May 1984What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 14th May 1984What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 15th May 1984What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 16th May 1984Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 17th May 1984Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 18th May 1984Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 19th May 1984Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 20th May 1984What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 21st May 1984What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 22nd May 1984What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 23rd May 1984Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 24th May 1984What is compensatory education?
- 25th May 1984What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 26th May 1984Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 27th May 1984What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 28th May 1984Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 29th May 1984What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 30th May 1984What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 31st May 1984What is primary socialisation?