Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2013 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2013, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2013Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 2nd January 2013State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 3rd January 2013Define culture.
- 4th January 2013Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 5th January 2013Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 6th January 2013Define social mobility.
- 7th January 2013What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 8th January 2013Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 9th January 2013What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 10th January 2013What is Sure Start?
- 11th January 2013What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 12th January 2013How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 13th January 2013According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 14th January 2013Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 15th January 2013Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 16th January 2013What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 17th January 2013Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 18th January 2013Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 19th January 2013What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 20th January 2013Define intergenerational mobility.
- 21st January 2013State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 22nd January 2013What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 23rd January 2013What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 24th January 2013What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 25th January 2013What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 26th January 2013How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 27th January 2013What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 28th January 2013What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 29th January 2013What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 30th January 2013Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 31st January 2013What is the difference between a norm and a value?