Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
July 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1985Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 2nd July 1985What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 3rd July 1985What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 4th July 1985Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 5th July 1985What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 6th July 1985Define 'forced marriage'.
- 7th July 1985Define 'cohabitation'.
- 8th July 1985According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 9th July 1985Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 10th July 1985What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 11th July 1985A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 12th July 1985Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 13th July 1985Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 14th July 1985What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 15th July 1985Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 16th July 1985What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 17th July 1985Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 18th July 1985What is compensatory education?
- 19th July 1985What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 20th July 1985Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 21st July 1985Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 22nd July 1985Describe the allowance system.
- 23rd July 1985Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 24th July 1985Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 25th July 1985Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 26th July 1985Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 27th July 1985What is the medical model of disability?
- 28th July 1985Define intragenerational mobility.
- 29th July 1985Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 30th July 1985What is 'primary deviance'?
- 31st July 1985How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?