Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 1997 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1997Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 2nd December 1997What is 'primary deviance'?
- 3rd December 1997How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 4th December 1997Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 5th December 1997What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 6th December 1997Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 7th December 1997Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 8th December 1997Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 9th December 1997What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 10th December 1997What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 11th December 1997Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 12th December 1997Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 13th December 1997Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 14th December 1997What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 15th December 1997According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 16th December 1997According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 17th December 1997Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 18th December 1997What is compensatory education?
- 19th December 1997What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 20th December 1997How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 21st December 1997Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 22nd December 1997Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 23rd December 1997Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 24th December 1997State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 25th December 1997Define culture.
- 26th December 1997Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 27th December 1997What is the medical model of disability?
- 28th December 1997Define intragenerational mobility.
- 29th December 1997What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 30th December 1997Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 31st December 1997What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?