Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 2011 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in December 2011, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in December 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2011What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 2nd December 2011What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 3rd December 2011How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 4th December 2011Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 5th December 2011Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 6th December 2011Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 7th December 2011State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 8th December 2011Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 9th December 2011Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 10th December 2011What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 11th December 2011What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 12th December 2011What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 13th December 2011Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 14th December 2011What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 15th December 2011Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 16th December 2011What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 17th December 2011How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 18th December 2011According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 19th December 2011Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 20th December 2011Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 21st December 2011What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 22nd December 2011Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 23rd December 2011Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 24th December 2011Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 25th December 2011What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 26th December 2011State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 27th December 2011What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 28th December 2011What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 29th December 2011What is compensatory education?
- 30th December 2011What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 31st December 2011How might feminists explain forced marriage?