Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
February 2010 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in February 2010, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in February 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2010Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 2nd February 2010Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 3rd February 2010What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 4th February 2010Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 5th February 2010Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 6th February 2010What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 7th February 2010What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 8th February 2010State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 9th February 2010What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 10th February 2010What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 11th February 2010Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 12th February 2010What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 13th February 2010How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 14th February 2010What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 15th February 2010What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 16th February 2010What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 17th February 2010Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 18th February 2010Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 19th February 2010Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 20th February 2010Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 21st February 2010What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 22nd February 2010What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 23rd February 2010What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 24th February 2010Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 25th February 2010What is compensatory education?
- 26th February 2010What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 27th February 2010Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 28th February 2010What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?