Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2003 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2003, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2003Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 2nd May 2003Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 3rd May 2003How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 4th May 2003Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 5th May 2003Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 6th May 2003Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 7th May 2003State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 8th May 2003Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 9th May 2003Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 10th May 2003Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 11th May 2003Define social mobility.
- 12th May 2003What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 13th May 2003Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 14th May 2003What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 15th May 2003What is Sure Start?
- 16th May 2003What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 17th May 2003How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 18th May 2003According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 19th May 2003Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 20th May 2003Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 21st May 2003What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 22nd May 2003Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 23rd May 2003Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 24th May 2003What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 25th May 2003Define intergenerational mobility.
- 26th May 2003State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 27th May 2003What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 28th May 2003What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 29th May 2003What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 30th May 2003What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 31st May 2003How might feminists explain forced marriage?