Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1986What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 2nd October 1986A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 3rd October 1986Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 4th October 1986Define globalisation.
- 5th October 1986Give 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.
- 6th October 1986State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 7th October 1986What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 8th October 1986What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 9th October 1986Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 10th October 1986Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 11th October 1986How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 12th October 1986What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 13th October 1986What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 14th October 1986What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 15th October 1986Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 16th October 1986Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 17th October 1986Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 18th October 1986Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 19th October 1986Define social mobility.
- 20th October 1986What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 21st October 1986What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 22nd October 1986Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 23rd October 1986What is Sure Start?
- 24th October 1986What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 25th October 1986Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 26th October 1986What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 27th October 1986Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 28th October 1986What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 29th October 1986What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 30th October 1986Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 31st October 1986Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.