Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
March 2012 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in March 2012, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in March 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st March 2012What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 2nd March 2012Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 3rd March 2012What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 4th March 2012What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 5th March 2012According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 6th March 2012According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 7th March 2012Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 8th March 2012Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 9th March 2012What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 10th March 2012How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 11th March 2012Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 12th March 2012Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 13th March 2012Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 14th March 2012State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 15th March 2012A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 16th March 2012Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 17th March 2012Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 18th March 2012What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 19th March 2012What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 20th March 2012Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 21st March 2012What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 22nd March 2012What is compensatory education?
- 23rd March 2012What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 24th March 2012How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 25th March 2012According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 26th March 2012Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 27th March 2012Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 28th March 2012What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 29th March 2012Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 30th March 2012Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 31st March 2012What is the medical model of disability?