Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2007 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2007, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2007
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2007What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 2nd May 2007What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 3rd May 2007Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 4th May 2007Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 5th May 2007What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 6th May 2007What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 7th May 2007According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 8th May 2007According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 9th May 2007Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 10th May 2007Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 11th May 2007What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 12th May 2007How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 13th May 2007Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 14th May 2007Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 15th May 2007Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 16th May 2007State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 17th May 2007Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 18th May 2007Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 19th May 2007Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 20th May 2007What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 21st May 2007What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 22nd May 2007Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 23rd May 2007What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 24th May 2007What is compensatory education?
- 25th May 2007What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 26th May 2007How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 27th May 2007According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 28th May 2007Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 29th May 2007Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 30th May 2007What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 31st May 2007What is primary socialisation?