Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2014 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2014, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2014What is the Pupil Premium?
- 2nd May 2014What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 3rd May 2014How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 4th May 2014Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 5th May 2014Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 6th May 2014Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 7th May 2014State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 8th May 2014A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 9th May 2014Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 10th May 2014Define globalisation.
- 11th May 2014Give 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.
- 12th May 2014What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 13th May 2014Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 14th May 2014What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 15th May 2014Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 16th May 2014Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 17th May 2014How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 18th May 2014According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 19th May 2014Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 20th May 2014Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 21st May 2014What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 22nd May 2014Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 23rd May 2014Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 24th May 2014Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 25th May 2014Define social mobility.
- 26th May 2014State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 27th May 2014What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 28th May 2014What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 29th May 2014What is Sure Start?
- 30th May 2014What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 31st May 2014How might feminists explain forced marriage?