Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 2000 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in April 2000, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in April 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2000Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 2nd April 2000What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 3rd April 2000Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 4th April 2000What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 5th April 2000What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 6th April 2000What is compensatory education?
- 7th April 2000What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 8th April 2000Define 'forced marriage'.
- 9th April 2000Define 'cohabitation'.
- 10th April 2000According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 11th April 2000Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 12th April 2000What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 13th April 2000Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 14th April 2000Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 15th April 2000What is the medical model of disability?
- 16th April 2000Define intragenerational mobility.
- 17th April 2000Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 18th April 2000What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 19th April 2000Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 20th April 2000What is the Pupil Premium?
- 21st April 2000What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 22nd April 2000Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 23rd April 2000Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 24th April 2000Describe the allowance system.
- 25th April 2000Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 26th April 2000Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 27th April 2000Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 28th April 2000Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 29th April 2000Define globalisation.
- 30th April 2000Give 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.