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November 1985 5-a-day

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November 1985

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

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The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st November 1985Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  2. 2nd November 1985Define globalisation.
  3. 3rd November 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.
  4. 4th November 1985Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  5. 5th November 1985What is 'primary deviance'?
  6. 6th November 1985How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  7. 7th November 1985Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  8. 8th November 1985Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  9. 9th November 1985Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  10. 10th November 1985Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  11. 11th November 1985Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  12. 12th November 1985What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  13. 13th November 1985What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  14. 14th November 1985Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  15. 15th November 1985Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  16. 16th November 1985Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  17. 17th November 1985Define social mobility.
  18. 18th November 1985According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  19. 19th November 1985According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  20. 20th November 1985Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  21. 21st November 1985What is Sure Start?
  22. 22nd November 1985What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  23. 23rd November 1985How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  24. 24th November 1985Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  25. 25th November 1985Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  26. 26th November 1985Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  27. 27th November 1985State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  28. 28th November 1985Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  29. 29th November 1985Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  30. 30th November 1985What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?