Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2011 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2011, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2011Define 'forced marriage'.
- 2nd January 2011Define 'cohabitation'.
- 3rd January 2011According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 4th January 2011Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 5th January 2011What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 6th January 2011Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 7th January 2011Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 8th January 2011What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 9th January 2011What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 10th January 2011Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 11th January 2011What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 12th January 2011Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 13th January 2011Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 14th January 2011What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 15th January 2011Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 16th January 2011Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 17th January 2011Describe the allowance system.
- 18th January 2011Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 19th January 2011Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 20th January 2011Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 21st January 2011Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 22nd January 2011Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 23rd January 2011What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 24th January 2011Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 25th January 2011What is 'primary deviance'?
- 26th January 2011How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 27th January 2011What is compensatory education?
- 28th January 2011What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 29th January 2011Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 30th January 2011Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 31st January 2011Name Pahl's four systems of money management.