Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 2011 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in April 2011, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in April 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2011Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 2nd April 2011What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 3rd April 2011What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 4th April 2011Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 5th April 2011What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 6th April 2011What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 7th April 2011Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 8th April 2011What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 9th April 2011Define 'forced marriage'.
- 10th April 2011Define 'cohabitation'.
- 11th April 2011According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 12th April 2011Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 13th April 2011What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 14th April 2011A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 15th April 2011Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 16th April 2011Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 17th April 2011What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 18th April 2011Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 19th April 2011What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 20th April 2011Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 21st April 2011What is compensatory education?
- 22nd April 2011What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 23rd April 2011Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 24th April 2011Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 25th April 2011Describe the allowance system.
- 26th April 2011Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 27th April 2011Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 28th April 2011Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 29th April 2011Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 30th April 2011What is the medical model of disability?