Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 2003 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in August 2003, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in August 2003
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2003Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 2nd August 2003Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 3rd August 2003Define social mobility.
- 4th August 2003According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 5th August 2003According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 6th August 2003Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 7th August 2003What is Sure Start?
- 8th August 2003What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 9th August 2003How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 10th August 2003Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 11th August 2003Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 12th August 2003Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 13th August 2003State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 14th August 2003A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 15th August 2003Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 16th August 2003What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 17th August 2003Define intergenerational mobility.
- 18th August 2003What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 19th August 2003Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 20th August 2003What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 21st August 2003What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 22nd August 2003What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 23rd August 2003How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 24th August 2003According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 25th August 2003Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 26th August 2003Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 27th August 2003What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 28th August 2003Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 29th August 2003Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 30th August 2003What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 31st August 2003What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?