Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
September 2002 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in September 2002, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in September 2002
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2002Define social mobility.
- 2nd September 2002Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 3rd September 2002What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 4th September 2002What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 5th September 2002What is Sure Start?
- 6th September 2002What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 7th September 2002Define 'forced marriage'.
- 8th September 2002Define 'cohabitation'.
- 9th September 2002According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 10th September 2002Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 11th September 2002What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 12th September 2002A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 13th September 2002Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 14th September 2002What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 15th September 2002Define intergenerational mobility.
- 16th September 2002Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 17th September 2002What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 18th September 2002Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 19th September 2002What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 20th September 2002What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 21st September 2002Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 22nd September 2002Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 23rd September 2002Describe the allowance system.
- 24th September 2002Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 25th September 2002Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 26th September 2002Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 27th September 2002Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 28th September 2002What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 29th September 2002What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 30th September 2002Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.