Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 1991 5-a-day
Every sheet in April 1991
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 1991According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 2nd April 1991According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 3rd April 1991Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 4th April 1991Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 5th April 1991What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 6th April 1991How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 7th April 1991Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 8th April 1991Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 9th April 1991Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 10th April 1991State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 11th April 1991Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 12th April 1991Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 13th April 1991Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 14th April 1991What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 15th April 1991What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 16th April 1991Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 17th April 1991What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 18th April 1991What is compensatory education?
- 19th April 1991What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 20th April 1991How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 21st April 1991According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 22nd April 1991Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 23rd April 1991Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 24th April 1991What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 25th April 1991What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 26th April 1991Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 27th April 1991What is the medical model of disability?
- 28th April 1991Define intragenerational mobility.
- 29th April 1991State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 30th April 1991What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?