Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2012 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2012, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2012What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 2nd May 2012What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 3rd May 2012What is Sure Start?
- 4th May 2012What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 5th May 2012Define 'forced marriage'.
- 6th May 2012Define 'cohabitation'.
- 7th May 2012According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 8th May 2012Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 9th May 2012What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 10th May 2012Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 11th May 2012Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 12th May 2012What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 13th May 2012Define intergenerational mobility.
- 14th May 2012Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 15th May 2012What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 16th May 2012Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 17th May 2012What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 18th May 2012What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 19th May 2012Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 20th May 2012Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 21st May 2012Describe the allowance system.
- 22nd May 2012Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 23rd May 2012Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 24th May 2012Define culture.
- 25th May 2012Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 26th May 2012What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 27th May 2012What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 28th May 2012Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 29th May 2012What is 'primary deviance'?
- 30th May 2012How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 31st May 2012Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?