Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 1984 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1984
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1984Describe the allowance system.
- 2nd October 1984Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 3rd October 1984Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 4th October 1984Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 5th October 1984Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 6th October 1984What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 7th October 1984Define intergenerational mobility.
- 8th October 1984Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 9th October 1984What is 'primary deviance'?
- 10th October 1984How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 11th October 1984What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 12th October 1984What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 13th October 1984Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 14th October 1984Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 15th October 1984Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 16th October 1984What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 17th October 1984What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 18th October 1984Define culture.
- 19th October 1984Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 20th October 1984What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 21st October 1984What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 22nd October 1984According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 23rd October 1984According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 24th October 1984Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 25th October 1984Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 26th October 1984What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 27th October 1984How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 28th October 1984Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 29th October 1984Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 30th October 1984Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 31st October 1984State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.