Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 1989 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1989
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1989What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 2nd December 1989How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 3rd December 1989Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 4th December 1989Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 5th December 1989Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 6th December 1989State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 7th December 1989What is primary socialisation?
- 8th December 1989Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 9th December 1989What is the medical model of disability?
- 10th December 1989Define intragenerational mobility.
- 11th December 1989What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 12th December 1989Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 13th December 1989What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 14th December 1989What is the Pupil Premium?
- 15th December 1989What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 16th December 1989How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 17th December 1989According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 18th December 1989Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 19th December 1989Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 20th December 1989What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 21st December 1989Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 22nd December 1989Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 23rd December 1989Define globalisation.
- 24th December 1989Give 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.
- 25th December 1989State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 26th December 1989What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 27th December 1989What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 28th December 1989Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 29th December 1989Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 30th December 1989How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 31st December 1989What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?