Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 1993 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1993
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1993Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 2nd January 1993Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 3rd January 1993Define social mobility.
- 4th January 1993Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 5th January 1993What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 6th January 1993What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 7th January 1993What is Sure Start?
- 8th January 1993What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 9th January 1993Define 'forced marriage'.
- 10th January 1993Define 'cohabitation'.
- 11th January 1993According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 12th January 1993Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 13th January 1993What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 14th January 1993Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 15th January 1993Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 16th January 1993What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 17th January 1993Define intergenerational mobility.
- 18th January 1993Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 19th January 1993What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 20th January 1993Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 21st January 1993What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 22nd January 1993What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 23rd January 1993Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 24th January 1993Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 25th January 1993Describe the allowance system.
- 26th January 1993Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 27th January 1993Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 28th January 1993Define culture.
- 29th January 1993Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 30th January 1993What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 31st January 1993What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?