Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 2008 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in August 2008, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in August 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2008What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 2nd August 2008Define 'forced marriage'.
- 3rd August 2008Define 'cohabitation'.
- 4th August 2008According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 5th August 2008Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 6th August 2008What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 7th August 2008Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 8th August 2008Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 9th August 2008Define globalisation.
- 10th August 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.
- 11th August 2008Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 12th August 2008What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 13th August 2008Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 14th August 2008Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 15th August 2008Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 16th August 2008Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 17th August 2008Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 18th August 2008Describe the allowance system.
- 19th August 2008Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 20th August 2008Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 21st August 2008What is primary socialisation?
- 22nd August 2008Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 23rd August 2008Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 24th August 2008Define social mobility.
- 25th August 2008Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 26th August 2008What is 'primary deviance'?
- 27th August 2008How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 28th August 2008What is Sure Start?
- 29th August 2008What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 30th August 2008Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 31st August 2008Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.