Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 2014 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in August 2014, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in August 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2014Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 2nd August 2014Define globalisation.
- 3rd August 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.
- 4th August 2014According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 5th August 2014According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 6th August 2014Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 7th August 2014Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 8th August 2014Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 9th August 2014How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 10th August 2014Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 11th August 2014Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 12th August 2014Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 13th August 2014State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 14th August 2014What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 15th August 2014Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 16th August 2014Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 17th August 2014Define social mobility.
- 18th August 2014What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 19th August 2014Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 20th August 2014What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 21st August 2014What is Sure Start?
- 22nd August 2014What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 23rd August 2014How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 24th August 2014According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 25th August 2014Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 26th August 2014Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 27th August 2014What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 28th August 2014A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 29th August 2014Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 30th August 2014What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 31st August 2014Define intergenerational mobility.