Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 1987 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1987
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1987What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 2nd December 1987What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 3rd December 1987Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 4th December 1987Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 5th December 1987Define 'forced marriage'.
- 6th December 1987Define 'cohabitation'.
- 7th December 1987According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 8th December 1987Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 9th December 1987What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 10th December 1987What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 11th December 1987Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 12th December 1987Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 13th December 1987Define social mobility.
- 14th December 1987Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 15th December 1987What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 16th December 1987Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 17th December 1987What is Sure Start?
- 18th December 1987What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 19th December 1987Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 20th December 1987Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 21st December 1987Describe the allowance system.
- 22nd December 1987Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 23rd December 1987Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 24th December 1987A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 25th December 1987Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 26th December 1987What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 27th December 1987Define intergenerational mobility.
- 28th December 1987Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 29th December 1987What is 'primary deviance'?
- 30th December 1987How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 31st December 1987What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?