Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 1990 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1990
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1990What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 2nd August 1990Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 3rd August 1990Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 4th August 1990Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 5th August 1990What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 6th August 1990Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 7th August 1990What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 8th August 1990What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 9th August 1990What is compensatory education?
- 10th August 1990What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 11th August 1990Define 'forced marriage'.
- 12th August 1990Define 'cohabitation'.
- 13th August 1990According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 14th August 1990Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 15th August 1990What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 16th August 1990Define culture.
- 17th August 1990Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 18th August 1990What is the medical model of disability?
- 19th August 1990Define intragenerational mobility.
- 20th August 1990Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 21st August 1990What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 22nd August 1990Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 23rd August 1990What is the Pupil Premium?
- 24th August 1990What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 25th August 1990Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 26th August 1990Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 27th August 1990Describe the allowance system.
- 28th August 1990Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 29th August 1990Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 30th August 1990Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 31st August 1990Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.