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January 1990 5-a-day

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January 1990

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in January 1990

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st January 1990What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  2. 2nd January 1990What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  3. 3rd January 1990Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  4. 4th January 1990Define culture.
  5. 5th January 1990Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  6. 6th January 1990Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  7. 7th January 1990Define social mobility.
  8. 8th January 1990What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  9. 9th January 1990What is 'secondary deviance'?
  10. 10th January 1990Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  11. 11th January 1990What is Sure Start?
  12. 12th January 1990What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  13. 13th January 1990Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  14. 14th January 1990What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  15. 15th January 1990Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  16. 16th January 1990What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  17. 17th January 1990What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  18. 18th January 1990Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  19. 19th January 1990Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  20. 20th January 1990What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  21. 21st January 1990Define intergenerational mobility.
  22. 22nd January 1990Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  23. 23rd January 1990What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  24. 24th January 1990What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  25. 25th January 1990What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  26. 26th January 1990What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  27. 27th January 1990Define 'forced marriage'.
  28. 28th January 1990Define 'cohabitation'.
  29. 29th January 1990According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  30. 30th January 1990Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  31. 31st January 1990What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?