Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1986Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 2nd December 1986What is 'primary deviance'?
- 3rd December 1986How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 4th December 1986What is compensatory education?
- 5th December 1986What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 6th December 1986Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 7th December 1986Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 8th December 1986Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 9th December 1986What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 10th December 1986What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 11th December 1986Define culture.
- 12th December 1986Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 13th December 1986What is the medical model of disability?
- 14th December 1986Define intragenerational mobility.
- 15th December 1986According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 16th December 1986According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 17th December 1986Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 18th December 1986What is the Pupil Premium?
- 19th December 1986What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 20th December 1986How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 21st December 1986Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 22nd December 1986Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 23rd December 1986Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 24th December 1986State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 25th December 1986Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 26th December 1986Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 27th December 1986Define globalisation.
- 28th December 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.
- 29th December 1986What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 30th December 1986Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 31st December 1986What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?