Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 2004 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in December 2004, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in December 2004
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2004What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 2nd December 2004Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 3rd December 2004Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 4th December 2004Define globalisation.
- 5th December 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.
- 6th December 2004According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 7th December 2004According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 8th December 2004Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 9th December 2004Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 10th December 2004Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 11th December 2004How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 12th December 2004Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 13th December 2004Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 14th December 2004Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 15th December 2004State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 16th December 2004What is primary socialisation?
- 17th December 2004Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 18th December 2004Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 19th December 2004Define social mobility.
- 20th December 2004What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 21st December 2004Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 22nd December 2004What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 23rd December 2004What is Sure Start?
- 24th December 2004What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 25th December 2004How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 26th December 2004According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 27th December 2004Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 28th December 2004Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 29th December 2004What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 30th December 2004Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 31st December 2004Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?