Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2012 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2012, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2012What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 2nd January 2012What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 3rd January 2012What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 4th January 2012Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 5th January 2012What is primary socialisation?
- 6th January 2012Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 7th January 2012What is the medical model of disability?
- 8th January 2012Define intragenerational mobility.
- 9th January 2012What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 10th January 2012What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 11th January 2012Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 12th January 2012What is the Pupil Premium?
- 13th January 2012What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 14th January 2012Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 15th January 2012What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 16th January 2012Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 17th January 2012What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 18th January 2012What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 19th January 2012Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 20th January 2012Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 21st January 2012Define globalisation.
- 22nd January 2012Give 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.
- 23rd January 2012Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 24th January 2012What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 25th January 2012What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 26th January 2012Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 27th January 2012Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 28th January 2012Define 'forced marriage'.
- 29th January 2012Define 'cohabitation'.
- 30th January 2012According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 31st January 2012Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?