Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 2011 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in August 2011, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in August 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2011Describe the allowance system.
- 2nd August 2011Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 3rd August 2011Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 4th August 2011A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 5th August 2011Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 6th August 2011Define globalisation.
- 7th August 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.
- 8th August 2011Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 9th August 2011What is 'primary deviance'?
- 10th August 2011How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 11th August 2011Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 12th August 2011Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 13th August 2011Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 14th August 2011Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 15th August 2011Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 16th August 2011What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 17th August 2011What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 18th August 2011Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 19th August 2011Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 20th August 2011Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 21st August 2011Define social mobility.
- 22nd August 2011According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 23rd August 2011According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 24th August 2011Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 25th August 2011What is Sure Start?
- 26th August 2011What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 27th August 2011How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 28th August 2011Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 29th August 2011Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 30th August 2011Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 31st August 2011State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.