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