Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 1988 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1988Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 2nd August 1988Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 3rd August 1988State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 4th August 1988A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 5th August 1988Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 6th August 1988Define globalisation.
- 7th August 1988Give 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.
- 8th August 1988What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 9th August 1988Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 10th August 1988What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 11th August 1988Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 12th August 1988Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 13th August 1988How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 14th August 1988According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 15th August 1988Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 16th August 1988Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 17th August 1988What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 18th August 1988Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 19th August 1988Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 20th August 1988Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 21st August 1988Define social mobility.
- 22nd August 1988State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 23rd August 1988What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 24th August 1988What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 25th August 1988What is Sure Start?
- 26th August 1988What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 27th August 1988How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 28th August 1988What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 29th August 1988What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 30th August 1988What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 31st August 1988Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.