Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
June 2008 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in June 2008, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in June 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2008Define social mobility.
- 2nd June 2008According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 3rd June 2008According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 4th June 2008Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 5th June 2008What is Sure Start?
- 6th June 2008What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 7th June 2008How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 8th June 2008Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 9th June 2008Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 10th June 2008Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 11th June 2008State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 12th June 2008Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 13th June 2008Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 14th June 2008What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 15th June 2008Define intergenerational mobility.
- 16th June 2008What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 17th June 2008Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 18th June 2008What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 19th June 2008What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 20th June 2008What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 21st June 2008How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 22nd June 2008According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 23rd June 2008Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 24th June 2008Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 25th June 2008What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 26th June 2008What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 27th June 2008Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 28th June 2008What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 29th June 2008What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 30th June 2008State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.