Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 1989 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1989Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 2nd August 1989Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 3rd August 1989Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 4th August 1989Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 5th August 1989What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 6th August 1989Define intergenerational mobility.
- 7th August 1989Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 8th August 1989What is 'primary deviance'?
- 9th August 1989How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 10th August 1989What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 11th August 1989What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 12th August 1989Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 13th August 1989Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 14th August 1989Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 15th August 1989What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 16th August 1989What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 17th August 1989What is primary socialisation?
- 18th August 1989Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 19th August 1989What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 20th August 1989What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 21st August 1989According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 22nd August 1989According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 23rd August 1989Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 24th August 1989Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 25th August 1989What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 26th August 1989How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 27th August 1989Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 28th August 1989Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 29th August 1989Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 30th August 1989State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 31st August 1989Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.