Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 1996 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1996What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 2nd October 1996What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 3rd October 1996Define culture.
- 4th October 1996Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 5th October 1996What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 6th October 1996What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 7th October 1996Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 8th October 1996What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 9th October 1996What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 10th October 1996Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 11th October 1996What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 12th October 1996Define 'forced marriage'.
- 13th October 1996Define 'cohabitation'.
- 14th October 1996According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 15th October 1996Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 16th October 1996What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 17th October 1996Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 18th October 1996Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 19th October 1996Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 20th October 1996What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 21st October 1996Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 22nd October 1996What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 23rd October 1996Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 24th October 1996What is compensatory education?
- 25th October 1996What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 26th October 1996Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 27th October 1996Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 28th October 1996Describe the allowance system.
- 29th October 1996Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 30th October 1996Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 31st October 1996What is the difference between a norm and a value?