Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 2012 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in April 2012, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in April 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2012Define intragenerational mobility.
- 2nd April 2012State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 3rd April 2012What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 4th April 2012What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 5th April 2012What is the Pupil Premium?
- 6th April 2012What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 7th April 2012How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 8th April 2012What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 9th April 2012What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 10th April 2012What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 11th April 2012Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 12th April 2012Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 13th April 2012Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 14th April 2012Define globalisation.
- 15th April 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.
- 16th April 2012What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 17th April 2012What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 18th April 2012Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 19th April 2012Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 20th April 2012Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 21st April 2012Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 22nd April 2012What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 23rd April 2012Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 24th April 2012What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 25th April 2012What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 26th April 2012What is primary socialisation?
- 27th April 2012Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 28th April 2012Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 29th April 2012Define social mobility.
- 30th April 2012Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.