Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 2009 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in December 2009, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in December 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2009What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 2nd December 2009What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 3rd December 2009What is compensatory education?
- 4th December 2009What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 5th December 2009Define 'forced marriage'.
- 6th December 2009Define 'cohabitation'.
- 7th December 2009According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 8th December 2009Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 9th December 2009What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 10th December 2009Define culture.
- 11th December 2009Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 12th December 2009What is the medical model of disability?
- 13th December 2009Define intragenerational mobility.
- 14th December 2009Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 15th December 2009What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 16th December 2009Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 17th December 2009What is the Pupil Premium?
- 18th December 2009What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 19th December 2009Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 20th December 2009Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 21st December 2009Describe the allowance system.
- 22nd December 2009Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 23rd December 2009Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 24th December 2009Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 25th December 2009Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 26th December 2009Define globalisation.
- 27th December 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.
- 28th December 2009Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 29th December 2009What is 'primary deviance'?
- 30th December 2009How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 31st December 2009Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.