Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 2012 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in October 2012, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in October 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2012What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 2nd October 2012Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 3rd October 2012What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 4th October 2012Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 5th October 2012Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 6th October 2012How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 7th October 2012According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 8th October 2012Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 9th October 2012Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 10th October 2012What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 11th October 2012What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 12th October 2012Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 13th October 2012Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 14th October 2012Define social mobility.
- 15th October 2012State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 16th October 2012What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 17th October 2012What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 18th October 2012What is Sure Start?
- 19th October 2012What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 20th October 2012How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 21st October 2012What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 22nd October 2012What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 23rd October 2012What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 24th October 2012Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 25th October 2012A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 26th October 2012Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 27th October 2012What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 28th October 2012Define intergenerational mobility.
- 29th October 2012What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 30th October 2012What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 31st October 2012Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.