Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 2010 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in August 2010, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in August 2010
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2010Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 2nd August 2010Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 3rd August 2010Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 4th August 2010State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 5th August 2010Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 6th August 2010Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 7th August 2010Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 8th August 2010What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 9th August 2010What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 10th August 2010Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 11th August 2010What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 12th August 2010What is compensatory education?
- 13th August 2010What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 14th August 2010How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 15th August 2010According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 16th August 2010Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 17th August 2010Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 18th August 2010What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 19th August 2010What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 20th August 2010Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 21st August 2010What is the medical model of disability?
- 22nd August 2010Define intragenerational mobility.
- 23rd August 2010State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 24th August 2010What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 25th August 2010What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 26th August 2010What is the Pupil Premium?
- 27th August 2010What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 28th August 2010How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 29th August 2010What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 30th August 2010What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 31st August 2010What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?