Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2002 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2002, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2002
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2002Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 2nd January 2002State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 3rd January 2002Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 4th January 2002Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 5th January 2002What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 6th January 2002Define intergenerational mobility.
- 7th January 2002What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 8th January 2002Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 9th January 2002What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 10th January 2002What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 11th January 2002What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 12th January 2002How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 13th January 2002According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 14th January 2002Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 15th January 2002Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 16th January 2002What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 17th January 2002What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 18th January 2002Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 19th January 2002What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 20th January 2002What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 21st January 2002State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 22nd January 2002What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 23rd January 2002What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 24th January 2002Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 25th January 2002What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 26th January 2002How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 27th January 2002What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 28th January 2002What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 29th January 2002What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 30th January 2002Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 31st January 2002A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?