Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 2009 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in April 2009, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in April 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2009State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 2nd April 2009What is primary socialisation?
- 3rd April 2009Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 4th April 2009What is the medical model of disability?
- 5th April 2009Define intragenerational mobility.
- 6th April 2009What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 7th April 2009Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 8th April 2009What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 9th April 2009What is the Pupil Premium?
- 10th April 2009What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 11th April 2009How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 12th April 2009According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 13th April 2009Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 14th April 2009Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 15th April 2009What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 16th April 2009Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 17th April 2009Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 18th April 2009Define globalisation.
- 19th April 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.
- 20th April 2009State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 21st April 2009What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 22nd April 2009What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 23rd April 2009Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 24th April 2009Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 25th April 2009How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 26th April 2009What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 27th April 2009What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 28th April 2009What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 29th April 2009Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 30th April 2009Define culture.