Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 1995 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1995
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1995Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 2nd October 1995Describe the allowance system.
- 3rd October 1995Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 4th October 1995Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 5th October 1995What is primary socialisation?
- 6th October 1995Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 7th October 1995Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 8th October 1995Define social mobility.
- 9th October 1995Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 10th October 1995What is 'primary deviance'?
- 11th October 1995How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 12th October 1995What is Sure Start?
- 13th October 1995What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 14th October 1995Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 15th October 1995Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 16th October 1995Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 17th October 1995What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 18th October 1995What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 19th October 1995Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 20th October 1995Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 21st October 1995What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 22nd October 1995Define intergenerational mobility.
- 23rd October 1995According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 24th October 1995According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 25th October 1995Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 26th October 1995What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 27th October 1995What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 28th October 1995How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 29th October 1995Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 30th October 1995Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 31st October 1995Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?