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