Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 2006 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in October 2006, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in October 2006
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2006Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 2nd October 2006Describe the allowance system.
- 3rd October 2006Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 4th October 2006Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 5th October 2006Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 6th October 2006Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 7th October 2006Define globalisation.
- 8th October 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.
- 9th October 2006Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 10th October 2006What is 'primary deviance'?
- 11th October 2006How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 12th October 2006Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 13th October 2006Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 14th October 2006Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 15th October 2006Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 16th October 2006Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 17th October 2006What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 18th October 2006What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 19th October 2006What is primary socialisation?
- 20th October 2006Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 21st October 2006Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 22nd October 2006Define social mobility.
- 23rd October 2006According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 24th October 2006According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 25th October 2006Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 26th October 2006What is Sure Start?
- 27th October 2006What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 28th October 2006How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 29th October 2006Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 30th October 2006Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 31st October 2006Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?