Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 2012 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in December 2012, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in December 2012
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2012Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 2nd December 2012Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 3rd December 2012Describe the allowance system.
- 4th December 2012Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 5th December 2012Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 6th December 2012What is primary socialisation?
- 7th December 2012Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 8th December 2012What is the medical model of disability?
- 9th December 2012Define intragenerational mobility.
- 10th December 2012Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 11th December 2012What is 'primary deviance'?
- 12th December 2012How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 13th December 2012What is the Pupil Premium?
- 14th December 2012What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 15th December 2012Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 16th December 2012Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 17th December 2012Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 18th December 2012What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 19th December 2012What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 20th December 2012Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 21st December 2012Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 22nd December 2012Define globalisation.
- 23rd December 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.
- 24th December 2012According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 25th December 2012According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 26th December 2012Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 27th December 2012Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 28th December 2012Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 29th December 2012How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 30th December 2012Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 31st December 2012Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?