Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1985Define intergenerational mobility.
- 2nd December 1985What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 3rd December 1985Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 4th December 1985What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 5th December 1985What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 6th December 1985What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 7th December 1985How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 8th December 1985According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 9th December 1985Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 10th December 1985Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 11th December 1985What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 12th December 1985What is primary socialisation?
- 13th December 1985Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 14th December 1985What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 15th December 1985What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 16th December 1985State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 17th December 1985What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 18th December 1985What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 19th December 1985Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 20th December 1985What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 21st December 1985How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 22nd December 1985What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 23rd December 1985What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 24th December 1985What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 25th December 1985Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 26th December 1985Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 27th December 1985Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 28th December 1985Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 29th December 1985What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 30th December 1985What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 31st December 1985What is 'secondary deviance'?