Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
July 2007 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in July 2007, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in July 2007
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2007Define social mobility.
- 2nd July 2007Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 3rd July 2007What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 4th July 2007What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 5th July 2007What is Sure Start?
- 6th July 2007What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 7th July 2007Define 'forced marriage'.
- 8th July 2007Define 'cohabitation'.
- 9th July 2007According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 10th July 2007Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 11th July 2007What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 12th July 2007Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 13th July 2007Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 14th July 2007What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 15th July 2007Define intergenerational mobility.
- 16th July 2007Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 17th July 2007What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 18th July 2007Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 19th July 2007What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 20th July 2007What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 21st July 2007Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 22nd July 2007Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 23rd July 2007Describe the allowance system.
- 24th July 2007Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 25th July 2007Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 26th July 2007What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 27th July 2007Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 28th July 2007What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 29th July 2007What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 30th July 2007Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 31st July 2007What is 'primary deviance'?