Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 1995 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1995
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1995Define intragenerational mobility.
- 2nd January 1995According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 3rd January 1995According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 4th January 1995Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 5th January 1995What is the Pupil Premium?
- 6th January 1995What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 7th January 1995How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 8th January 1995Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 9th January 1995Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 10th January 1995Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 11th January 1995State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 12th January 1995A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 13th January 1995Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 14th January 1995Define globalisation.
- 15th January 1995Give 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.
- 16th January 1995What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 17th January 1995Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 18th January 1995What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 19th January 1995Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 20th January 1995Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 21st January 1995How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 22nd January 1995According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 23rd January 1995Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 24th January 1995Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 25th January 1995What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 26th January 1995Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 27th January 1995Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 28th January 1995Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 29th January 1995Define social mobility.
- 30th January 1995State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 31st January 1995What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?