Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 2014 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in October 2014, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in October 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2014What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 2nd October 2014What is compensatory education?
- 3rd October 2014What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 4th October 2014Define 'forced marriage'.
- 5th October 2014Define 'cohabitation'.
- 6th October 2014According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 7th October 2014Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 8th October 2014What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 9th October 2014What is primary socialisation?
- 10th October 2014Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 11th October 2014What is the medical model of disability?
- 12th October 2014Define intragenerational mobility.
- 13th October 2014Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 14th October 2014What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 15th October 2014Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 16th October 2014What is the Pupil Premium?
- 17th October 2014What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 18th October 2014Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 19th October 2014Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 20th October 2014Describe the allowance system.
- 21st October 2014Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 22nd October 2014Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 23rd October 2014Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 24th October 2014Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 25th October 2014Define globalisation.
- 26th October 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.
- 27th October 2014Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 28th October 2014What is 'primary deviance'?
- 29th October 2014How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 30th October 2014Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 31st October 2014Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.