Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 2008 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in October 2008, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in October 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2008What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 2nd October 2008Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 3rd October 2008Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 4th October 2008Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 5th October 2008What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 6th October 2008State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 7th October 2008What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 8th October 2008What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 9th October 2008What is compensatory education?
- 10th October 2008What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 11th October 2008How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 12th October 2008What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 13th October 2008What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 14th October 2008What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 15th October 2008Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 16th October 2008What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 17th October 2008Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 18th October 2008What is the medical model of disability?
- 19th October 2008Define intragenerational mobility.
- 20th October 2008What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 21st October 2008What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 22nd October 2008Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 23rd October 2008What is the Pupil Premium?
- 24th October 2008What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 25th October 2008Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 26th October 2008What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 27th October 2008Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 28th October 2008What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 29th October 2008What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 30th October 2008A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 31st October 2008Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?