Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2000 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2000, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2000
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2000Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 2nd May 2000What is 'primary deviance'?
- 3rd May 2000How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 4th May 2000Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 5th May 2000Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 6th May 2000Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 7th May 2000Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 8th May 2000Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 9th May 2000What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 10th May 2000What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 11th May 2000What is primary socialisation?
- 12th May 2000Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 13th May 2000Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 14th May 2000Define social mobility.
- 15th May 2000According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 16th May 2000According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 17th May 2000Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 18th May 2000What is Sure Start?
- 19th May 2000What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 20th May 2000How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 21st May 2000Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 22nd May 2000Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 23rd May 2000Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 24th May 2000State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 25th May 2000Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 26th May 2000Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 27th May 2000What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 28th May 2000Define intergenerational mobility.
- 29th May 2000What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 30th May 2000Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 31st May 2000What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?