Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
July 2012 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in July 2012, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in July 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 2012According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 2nd July 2012Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 3rd July 2012Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 4th July 2012What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 5th July 2012A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 6th July 2012Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 7th July 2012Define globalisation.
- 8th July 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.
- 9th July 2012State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 10th July 2012What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 11th July 2012What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 12th July 2012Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 13th July 2012Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 14th July 2012How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 15th July 2012What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 16th July 2012What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 17th July 2012What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 18th July 2012Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 19th July 2012Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 20th July 2012Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 21st July 2012Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 22nd July 2012Define social mobility.
- 23rd July 2012What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 24th July 2012What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 25th July 2012Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 26th July 2012What is Sure Start?
- 27th July 2012What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 28th July 2012Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 29th July 2012What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 30th July 2012Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 31st July 2012What is meant by 'representativeness'?