Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2004 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2004, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2004
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2004Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 2nd January 2004Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 3rd January 2004Define globalisation.
- 4th January 2004Give 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.
- 5th January 2004Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 6th January 2004What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 7th January 2004What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 8th January 2004Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 9th January 2004Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 10th January 2004Define 'forced marriage'.
- 11th January 2004Define 'cohabitation'.
- 12th January 2004According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 13th January 2004Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 14th January 2004What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 15th January 2004What is primary socialisation?
- 16th January 2004Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 17th January 2004Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 18th January 2004Define social mobility.
- 19th January 2004Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 20th January 2004What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 21st January 2004Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 22nd January 2004What is Sure Start?
- 23rd January 2004What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 24th January 2004Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 25th January 2004Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 26th January 2004Describe the allowance system.
- 27th January 2004Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 28th January 2004Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 29th January 2004Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 30th January 2004Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 31st January 2004What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?