Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 1996 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1996What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 2nd May 1996Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 3rd May 1996Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 4th May 1996Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 5th May 1996What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 6th May 1996According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 7th May 1996According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 8th May 1996Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 9th May 1996What is compensatory education?
- 10th May 1996What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 11th May 1996How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 12th May 1996Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 13th May 1996Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 14th May 1996Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 15th May 1996State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 16th May 1996What is primary socialisation?
- 17th May 1996Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 18th May 1996What is the medical model of disability?
- 19th May 1996Define intragenerational mobility.
- 20th May 1996What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 21st May 1996Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 22nd May 1996What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 23rd May 1996What is the Pupil Premium?
- 24th May 1996What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 25th May 1996How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 26th May 1996According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 27th May 1996Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 28th May 1996Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 29th May 1996What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 30th May 1996Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 31st May 1996Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?