Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 1993 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1993
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1993What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 2nd August 1993Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 3rd August 1993What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 4th August 1993Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 5th August 1993What is compensatory education?
- 6th August 1993What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 7th August 1993Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 8th August 1993Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 9th August 1993Describe the allowance system.
- 10th August 1993Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 11th August 1993Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 12th August 1993What is primary socialisation?
- 13th August 1993Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 14th August 1993What is the medical model of disability?
- 15th August 1993Define intragenerational mobility.
- 16th August 1993Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 17th August 1993What is 'primary deviance'?
- 18th August 1993How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 19th August 1993What is the Pupil Premium?
- 20th August 1993What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 21st August 1993Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 22nd August 1993Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 23rd August 1993Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 24th August 1993What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 25th August 1993What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 26th August 1993Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 27th August 1993Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 28th August 1993Define globalisation.
- 29th August 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.
- 30th August 1993According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 31st August 1993According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?