Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
November 2012 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in November 2012, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in November 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2012What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 2nd November 2012What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 3rd November 2012Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 4th November 2012What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 5th November 2012Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 6th November 2012What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 7th November 2012What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 8th November 2012Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 9th November 2012Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 10th November 2012What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 11th November 2012What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 12th November 2012Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 13th November 2012What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 14th November 2012What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 15th November 2012Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 16th November 2012What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 17th November 2012Define 'forced marriage'.
- 18th November 2012Define 'cohabitation'.
- 19th November 2012According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 20th November 2012Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 21st November 2012What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 22nd November 2012Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 23rd November 2012Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 24th November 2012Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 25th November 2012What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 26th November 2012Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 27th November 2012What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 28th November 2012Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 29th November 2012What is compensatory education?
- 30th November 2012What does Lacey mean by polarisation?