Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2008 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2008, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2008What is primary socialisation?
- 2nd May 2008Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 3rd May 2008What is the medical model of disability?
- 4th May 2008Define intragenerational mobility.
- 5th May 2008Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 6th May 2008What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 7th May 2008Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 8th May 2008What is the Pupil Premium?
- 9th May 2008What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 10th May 2008Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 11th May 2008Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 12th May 2008Describe the allowance system.
- 13th May 2008Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 14th May 2008Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 15th May 2008Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 16th May 2008Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 17th May 2008Define globalisation.
- 18th May 2008Give one reason why absolute mobility in the UK rose during the 20th century even without the class system becoming much more open in relative terms.
- 19th May 2008Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 20th May 2008What is 'primary deviance'?
- 21st May 2008How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 22nd May 2008Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 23rd May 2008Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 24th May 2008Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 25th May 2008Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 26th May 2008Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 27th May 2008What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 28th May 2008What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 29th May 2008Define culture.
- 30th May 2008Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 31st May 2008Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.