Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1985What is the Pupil Premium?
- 2nd August 1985What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 3rd August 1985Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 4th August 1985Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 5th August 1985Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 6th August 1985What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 7th August 1985What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 8th August 1985Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 9th August 1985Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 10th August 1985Define globalisation.
- 11th August 1985Give 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.
- 12th August 1985According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 13th August 1985According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 14th August 1985Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 15th August 1985Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 16th August 1985Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 17th August 1985How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 18th August 1985Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 19th August 1985Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 20th August 1985Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 21st August 1985State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 22nd August 1985What is primary socialisation?
- 23rd August 1985Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 24th August 1985Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 25th August 1985Define social mobility.
- 26th August 1985What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 27th August 1985Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 28th August 1985What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 29th August 1985What is Sure Start?
- 30th August 1985What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 31st August 1985How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?