Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 2008 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in April 2008, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in April 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2008What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 2nd April 2008Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 3rd April 2008Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 4th April 2008Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 5th April 2008What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 6th April 2008What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 7th April 2008What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 8th April 2008What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 9th April 2008Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 10th April 2008Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 11th April 2008What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 12th April 2008Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 13th April 2008What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 14th April 2008Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 15th April 2008What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 16th April 2008What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 17th April 2008Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 18th April 2008Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 19th April 2008Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 20th April 2008What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 21st April 2008Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 22nd April 2008What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 23rd April 2008What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 24th April 2008What is compensatory education?
- 25th April 2008What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 26th April 2008Define 'forced marriage'.
- 27th April 2008Define 'cohabitation'.
- 28th April 2008According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 29th April 2008Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 30th April 2008What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?