Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 2008 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in December 2008, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in December 2008
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2008Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 2nd December 2008What is 'primary deviance'?
- 3rd December 2008How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 4th December 2008What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 5th December 2008What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 6th December 2008Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 7th December 2008Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 8th December 2008Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 9th December 2008What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 10th December 2008What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 11th December 2008What is primary socialisation?
- 12th December 2008Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 13th December 2008What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 14th December 2008What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 15th December 2008According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 16th December 2008According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 17th December 2008Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 18th December 2008Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 19th December 2008What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 20th December 2008How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 21st December 2008Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 22nd December 2008Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 23rd December 2008Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 24th December 2008State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 25th December 2008Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 26th December 2008Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 27th December 2008Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 28th December 2008What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 29th December 2008What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 30th December 2008Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 31st December 2008What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?