Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 1991 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1991
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1991What is 'primary deviance'?
- 2nd October 1991How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 3rd October 1991What is compensatory education?
- 4th October 1991What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 5th October 1991Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 6th October 1991Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 7th October 1991Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 8th October 1991What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 9th October 1991What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 10th October 1991What is primary socialisation?
- 11th October 1991Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 12th October 1991What is the medical model of disability?
- 13th October 1991Define intragenerational mobility.
- 14th October 1991According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 15th October 1991According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 16th October 1991Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 17th October 1991What is the Pupil Premium?
- 18th October 1991What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 19th October 1991How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 20th October 1991Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 21st October 1991Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 22nd October 1991Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 23rd October 1991State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 24th October 1991Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 25th October 1991Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 26th October 1991Define globalisation.
- 27th October 1991Give 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.
- 28th October 1991What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 29th October 1991Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 30th October 1991What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 31st October 1991Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.