Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2006 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2006, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2006What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 2nd January 2006According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 3rd January 2006According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 4th January 2006Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 5th January 2006What is compensatory education?
- 6th January 2006What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 7th January 2006How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 8th January 2006Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 9th January 2006Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 10th January 2006Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 11th January 2006State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 12th January 2006What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 13th January 2006Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 14th January 2006What is the medical model of disability?
- 15th January 2006Define intragenerational mobility.
- 16th January 2006What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 17th January 2006Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 18th January 2006What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 19th January 2006What is the Pupil Premium?
- 20th January 2006What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 21st January 2006How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 22nd January 2006According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 23rd January 2006Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 24th January 2006Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 25th January 2006What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 26th January 2006A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 27th January 2006Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 28th January 2006Define globalisation.
- 29th January 2006Give 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.
- 30th January 2006State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 31st January 2006What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?