Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 1987 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1987
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1987State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 2nd April 1987Define culture.
- 3rd April 1987Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 4th April 1987Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 5th April 1987Define social mobility.
- 6th April 1987What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 7th April 1987Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 8th April 1987What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 9th April 1987What is Sure Start?
- 10th April 1987What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 11th April 1987How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 12th April 1987According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 13th April 1987Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 14th April 1987Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 15th April 1987What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 16th April 1987Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 17th April 1987Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 18th April 1987What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 19th April 1987Define intergenerational mobility.
- 20th April 1987State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 21st April 1987What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 22nd April 1987What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 23rd April 1987What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 24th April 1987What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 25th April 1987How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 26th April 1987What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 27th April 1987What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 28th April 1987What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 29th April 1987Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 30th April 1987What is the difference between a norm and a value?