Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
September 2012 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in September 2012, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in September 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2012Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 2nd September 2012What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 3rd September 2012Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 4th September 2012What is 'primary deviance'?
- 5th September 2012How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 6th September 2012What is compensatory education?
- 7th September 2012What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 8th September 2012Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 9th September 2012Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 10th September 2012Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 11th September 2012What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 12th September 2012What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 13th September 2012Define culture.
- 14th September 2012Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 15th September 2012What is the medical model of disability?
- 16th September 2012Define intragenerational mobility.
- 17th September 2012According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 18th September 2012According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 19th September 2012Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 20th September 2012What is the Pupil Premium?
- 21st September 2012What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 22nd September 2012How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 23rd September 2012Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 24th September 2012Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 25th September 2012Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 26th September 2012State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 27th September 2012Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 28th September 2012Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 29th September 2012Define globalisation.
- 30th September 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.