Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
September 2013 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in September 2013, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in September 2013
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2013Give 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.
- 2nd September 2013Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 3rd September 2013What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 4th September 2013What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 5th September 2013Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 6th September 2013Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 7th September 2013Define 'forced marriage'.
- 8th September 2013Define 'cohabitation'.
- 9th September 2013According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 10th September 2013Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 11th September 2013What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 12th September 2013What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 13th September 2013Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 14th September 2013Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 15th September 2013Define social mobility.
- 16th September 2013Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 17th September 2013What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 18th September 2013Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 19th September 2013What is Sure Start?
- 20th September 2013What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 21st September 2013Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 22nd September 2013Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 23rd September 2013Describe the allowance system.
- 24th September 2013Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 25th September 2013Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 26th September 2013A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 27th September 2013Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 28th September 2013What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 29th September 2013Define intergenerational mobility.
- 30th September 2013Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.