Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 1992 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1992
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1992What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 2nd August 1992Define intergenerational mobility.
- 3rd August 1992According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 4th August 1992According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 5th August 1992Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 6th August 1992What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 7th August 1992What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 8th August 1992How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 9th August 1992Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 10th August 1992Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 11th August 1992Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 12th August 1992State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 13th August 1992Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 14th August 1992Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 15th August 1992What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 16th August 1992What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 17th August 1992What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 18th August 1992Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 19th August 1992What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 20th August 1992Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 21st August 1992What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 22nd August 1992How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 23rd August 1992According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 24th August 1992Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 25th August 1992Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 26th August 1992What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 27th August 1992Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 28th August 1992Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 29th August 1992Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 30th August 1992What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 31st August 1992State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.