Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
June 1993 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1993
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1993Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 2nd June 1993State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 3rd June 1993Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 4th June 1993Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 5th June 1993Define globalisation.
- 6th June 1993Give 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.
- 7th June 1993What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 8th June 1993Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 9th June 1993What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 10th June 1993Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 11th June 1993Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 12th June 1993How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 13th June 1993According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 14th June 1993Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 15th June 1993Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 16th June 1993What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 17th June 1993What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 18th June 1993Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 19th June 1993Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 20th June 1993Define social mobility.
- 21st June 1993State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 22nd June 1993What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 23rd June 1993What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 24th June 1993What is Sure Start?
- 25th June 1993What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 26th June 1993How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 27th June 1993What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 28th June 1993What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 29th June 1993What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 30th June 1993Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.