Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2001 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2001, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2001What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 2nd January 2001What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 3rd January 2001Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 4th January 2001Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 5th January 2001Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 6th January 2001Define globalisation.
- 7th January 2001Give 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.
- 8th January 2001What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 9th January 2001What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 10th January 2001Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 11th January 2001Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 12th January 2001Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 13th January 2001Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 14th January 2001What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 15th January 2001Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 16th January 2001What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 17th January 2001What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 18th January 2001Define culture.
- 19th January 2001Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 20th January 2001Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 21st January 2001Define social mobility.
- 22nd January 2001Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 23rd January 2001What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 24th January 2001What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 25th January 2001What is Sure Start?
- 26th January 2001What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 27th January 2001Define 'forced marriage'.
- 28th January 2001Define 'cohabitation'.
- 29th January 2001According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 30th January 2001Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 31st January 2001What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?