Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 2009 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in October 2009, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in October 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2009A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 2nd October 2009Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 3rd October 2009Define globalisation.
- 4th October 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.
- 5th October 2009According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 6th October 2009According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 7th October 2009Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 8th October 2009Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 9th October 2009Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 10th October 2009How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 11th October 2009Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 12th October 2009Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 13th October 2009Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 14th October 2009State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 15th October 2009Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 16th October 2009Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 17th October 2009Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 18th October 2009Define social mobility.
- 19th October 2009What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 20th October 2009Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 21st October 2009What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 22nd October 2009What is Sure Start?
- 23rd October 2009What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 24th October 2009How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 25th October 2009According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 26th October 2009Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 27th October 2009Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 28th October 2009What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 29th October 2009Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 30th October 2009Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 31st October 2009What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?