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September 1984 5-a-day

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September 1984

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in September 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 September 1984Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  2. 2nd September 1984What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  3. 3rd September 1984Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  4. 4th September 1984What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  5. 5th September 1984What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  6. 6th September 1984Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  7. 7th September 1984Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  8. 8th September 1984Define globalisation.
  9. 9th September 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.
  10. 10th September 1984Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  11. 11th September 1984What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  12. 12th September 1984What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  13. 13th September 1984Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  14. 14th September 1984Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  15. 15th September 1984Define 'forced marriage'.
  16. 16th September 1984Define 'cohabitation'.
  17. 17th September 1984According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  18. 18th September 1984Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  19. 19th September 1984What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  20. 20th September 1984What is primary socialisation?
  21. 21st September 1984Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  22. 22nd September 1984Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  23. 23rd September 1984Define social mobility.
  24. 24th September 1984Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  25. 25th September 1984What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  26. 26th September 1984Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  27. 27th September 1984What is Sure Start?
  28. 28th September 1984What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  29. 29th September 1984Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  30. 30th September 1984Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.