Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2014 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2014, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2014Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 2nd January 2014What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 3rd January 2014Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 4th January 2014What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 5th January 2014What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 6th January 2014Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 7th January 2014What is 'primary deviance'?
- 8th January 2014How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 9th January 2014Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 10th January 2014What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 11th January 2014Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 12th January 2014Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 13th January 2014Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 14th January 2014What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 15th January 2014What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 16th January 2014A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 17th January 2014Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 18th January 2014Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 19th January 2014What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 20th January 2014According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 21st January 2014According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 22nd January 2014Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 23rd January 2014What is compensatory education?
- 24th January 2014What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 25th January 2014How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 26th January 2014Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 27th January 2014Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 28th January 2014Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 29th January 2014State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 30th January 2014Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 31st January 2014Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.