Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2011 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2011, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2011Define intragenerational mobility.
- 2nd May 2011Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 3rd May 2011What is 'primary deviance'?
- 4th May 2011How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 5th May 2011What is the Pupil Premium?
- 6th May 2011What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 7th May 2011Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 8th May 2011Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 9th May 2011Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 10th May 2011What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 11th May 2011What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 12th May 2011Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 13th May 2011Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 14th May 2011Define globalisation.
- 15th May 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.
- 16th May 2011According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 17th May 2011According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 18th May 2011Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 19th May 2011Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 20th May 2011Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 21st May 2011How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 22nd May 2011Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 23rd May 2011Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 24th May 2011Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 25th May 2011State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 26th May 2011What is primary socialisation?
- 27th May 2011Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 28th May 2011Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 29th May 2011Define social mobility.
- 30th May 2011What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 31st May 2011Give one criticism of labelling theory.