Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
November 2008 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in November 2008, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in November 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2008Define globalisation.
- 2nd November 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.
- 3rd November 2008Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 4th November 2008What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 5th November 2008What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 6th November 2008Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 7th November 2008Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 8th November 2008Define 'forced marriage'.
- 9th November 2008Define 'cohabitation'.
- 10th November 2008According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 11th November 2008Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 12th November 2008What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 13th November 2008Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 14th November 2008Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 15th November 2008Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 16th November 2008Define social mobility.
- 17th November 2008Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 18th November 2008What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 19th November 2008Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 20th November 2008What is Sure Start?
- 21st November 2008What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 22nd November 2008Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 23rd November 2008Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 24th November 2008Describe the allowance system.
- 25th November 2008Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 26th November 2008Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 27th November 2008Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 28th November 2008Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 29th November 2008What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 30th November 2008Define intergenerational mobility.