Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
November 2009 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in November 2009, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in November 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2009Define intergenerational mobility.
- 2nd November 2009State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 3rd November 2009What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 4th November 2009What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 5th November 2009What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 6th November 2009What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 7th November 2009How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 8th November 2009What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 9th November 2009What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 10th November 2009What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 11th November 2009Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 12th November 2009What is primary socialisation?
- 13th November 2009Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 14th November 2009What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 15th November 2009What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 16th November 2009What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 17th November 2009What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 18th November 2009Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 19th November 2009Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 20th November 2009What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 21st November 2009Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 22nd November 2009What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 23rd November 2009Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 24th November 2009What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 25th November 2009What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 26th November 2009Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 27th November 2009Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 28th November 2009Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 29th November 2009What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 30th November 2009Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.