Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
September 1991 5-a-day
Every sheet in September 1991
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 1991Define intergenerational mobility.
- 2nd September 1991Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 3rd September 1991What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 4th September 1991What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 5th September 1991What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 6th September 1991What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 7th September 1991Define 'forced marriage'.
- 8th September 1991Define 'cohabitation'.
- 9th September 1991According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 10th September 1991Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 11th September 1991What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 12th September 1991Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 13th September 1991Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 14th September 1991What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 15th September 1991What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 16th September 1991Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 17th September 1991What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 18th September 1991Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 19th September 1991Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 20th September 1991What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 21st September 1991Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 22nd September 1991Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 23rd September 1991Describe the allowance system.
- 24th September 1991Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 25th September 1991Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 26th September 1991Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 27th September 1991Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 28th September 1991Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 29th September 1991What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 30th September 1991Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.