Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2008 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2008, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2008What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 2nd January 2008Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 3rd January 2008What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 4th January 2008What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 5th January 2008Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 6th January 2008What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 7th January 2008Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 8th January 2008What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 9th January 2008What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 10th January 2008What is primary socialisation?
- 11th January 2008Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 12th January 2008What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 13th January 2008What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 14th January 2008Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 15th January 2008What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 16th January 2008What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 17th January 2008Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 18th January 2008What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 19th January 2008Define 'forced marriage'.
- 20th January 2008Define 'cohabitation'.
- 21st January 2008According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 22nd January 2008Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 23rd January 2008What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 24th January 2008Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 25th January 2008Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 26th January 2008Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 27th January 2008What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 28th January 2008Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 29th January 2008What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 30th January 2008Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 31st January 2008What is compensatory education?