Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 2014 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in December 2014, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in December 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2014Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 2nd December 2014Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 3rd December 2014What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 4th December 2014What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 5th December 2014Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 6th December 2014What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 7th December 2014What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 8th December 2014State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 9th December 2014What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 10th December 2014What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 11th December 2014Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 12th December 2014What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 13th December 2014How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 14th December 2014What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 15th December 2014What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 16th December 2014What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 17th December 2014Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 18th December 2014A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 19th December 2014Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 20th December 2014Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 21st December 2014What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 22nd December 2014What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 23rd December 2014What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 24th December 2014Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 25th December 2014What is compensatory education?
- 26th December 2014What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 27th December 2014Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 28th December 2014What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 29th December 2014Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 30th December 2014What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 31st December 2014What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?