Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
November 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1986What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 2nd November 1986Define intergenerational mobility.
- 3rd November 1986Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 4th November 1986What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 5th November 1986What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 6th November 1986What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 7th November 1986What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 8th November 1986Define 'forced marriage'.
- 9th November 1986Define 'cohabitation'.
- 10th November 1986According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 11th November 1986Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 12th November 1986What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 13th November 1986What is primary socialisation?
- 14th November 1986Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 15th November 1986What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 16th November 1986What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 17th November 1986Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 18th November 1986What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 19th November 1986Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 20th November 1986Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 21st November 1986What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 22nd November 1986Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 23rd November 1986Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 24th November 1986Describe the allowance system.
- 25th November 1986Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 26th November 1986Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 27th November 1986Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 28th November 1986Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 29th November 1986Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 30th November 1986What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?