Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
November 1988 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1988
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1988According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 2nd November 1988Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 3rd November 1988Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 4th November 1988Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 5th November 1988How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 6th November 1988Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 7th November 1988Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 8th November 1988Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 9th November 1988State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 10th November 1988What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 11th November 1988Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 12th November 1988Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 13th November 1988Define social mobility.
- 14th November 1988What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 15th November 1988Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 16th November 1988What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 17th November 1988What is Sure Start?
- 18th November 1988What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 19th November 1988How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 20th November 1988According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 21st November 1988Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 22nd November 1988Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 23rd November 1988What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 24th November 1988A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 25th November 1988Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 26th November 1988What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 27th November 1988Define intergenerational mobility.
- 28th November 1988State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 29th November 1988What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 30th November 1988What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?