Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
February 2011 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in February 2011, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in February 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2011What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 2nd February 2011What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 3rd February 2011What is primary socialisation?
- 4th February 2011Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 5th February 2011What is the medical model of disability?
- 6th February 2011Define intragenerational mobility.
- 7th February 2011According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 8th February 2011According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 9th February 2011Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 10th February 2011What is the Pupil Premium?
- 11th February 2011What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 12th February 2011How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 13th February 2011Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 14th February 2011Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 15th February 2011Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 16th February 2011State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 17th February 2011Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 18th February 2011Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 19th February 2011Define globalisation.
- 20th February 2011Give 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.
- 21st February 2011What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 22nd February 2011Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 23rd February 2011What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 24th February 2011Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 25th February 2011Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 26th February 2011How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 27th February 2011According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 28th February 2011Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?