Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
March 2009 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in March 2009, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in March 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2009Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 2nd March 2009Describe the allowance system.
- 3rd March 2009Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 4th March 2009Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 5th March 2009Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 6th March 2009Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 7th March 2009What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 8th March 2009What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 9th March 2009Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 10th March 2009What is 'primary deviance'?
- 11th March 2009How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 12th March 2009Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 13th March 2009What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 14th March 2009Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 15th March 2009Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 16th March 2009Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 17th March 2009What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 18th March 2009What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 19th March 2009Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 20th March 2009Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 21st March 2009Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 22nd March 2009What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 23rd March 2009According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 24th March 2009According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 25th March 2009Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 26th March 2009What is compensatory education?
- 27th March 2009What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 28th March 2009How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 29th March 2009Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 30th March 2009Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 31st March 2009Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?