Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2009 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2009, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2009What is compensatory education?
- 2nd January 2009What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 3rd January 2009How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 4th January 2009According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 5th January 2009Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 6th January 2009Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 7th January 2009What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 8th January 2009Define culture.
- 9th January 2009Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 10th January 2009What is the medical model of disability?
- 11th January 2009Define intragenerational mobility.
- 12th January 2009State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 13th January 2009What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 14th January 2009What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 15th January 2009What is the Pupil Premium?
- 16th January 2009What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 17th January 2009How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 18th January 2009What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 19th January 2009What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 20th January 2009What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 21st January 2009Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 22nd January 2009Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 23rd January 2009Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 24th January 2009Define globalisation.
- 25th January 2009Give 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.
- 26th January 2009What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 27th January 2009What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 28th January 2009Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 29th January 2009Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 30th January 2009Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 31st January 2009Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.