Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
March 1987 5-a-day
Every sheet in March 1987
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 1987Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 2nd March 1987Describe the allowance system.
- 3rd March 1987Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 4th March 1987Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 5th March 1987What is primary socialisation?
- 6th March 1987Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 7th March 1987What is the medical model of disability?
- 8th March 1987Define intragenerational mobility.
- 9th March 1987Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 10th March 1987What is 'primary deviance'?
- 11th March 1987How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 12th March 1987What is the Pupil Premium?
- 13th March 1987What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 14th March 1987Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 15th March 1987Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 16th March 1987Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 17th March 1987What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 18th March 1987What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 19th March 1987Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 20th March 1987Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 21st March 1987Define globalisation.
- 22nd March 1987Give 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.
- 23rd March 1987According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 24th March 1987According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 25th March 1987Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 26th March 1987Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 27th March 1987Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 28th March 1987How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 29th March 1987Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 30th March 1987Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 31st March 1987Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?