Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2015 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2015, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2015Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 2nd January 2015Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 3rd January 2015What is the medical model of disability?
- 4th January 2015Define intragenerational mobility.
- 5th January 2015Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 6th January 2015What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 7th January 2015What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 8th January 2015What is the Pupil Premium?
- 9th January 2015What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 10th January 2015Define 'forced marriage'.
- 11th January 2015Define 'cohabitation'.
- 12th January 2015According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 13th January 2015Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 14th January 2015What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 15th January 2015Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 16th January 2015Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 17th January 2015Define globalisation.
- 18th January 2015Give 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.
- 19th January 2015Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 20th January 2015What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 21st January 2015Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 22nd January 2015Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 23rd January 2015Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 24th January 2015Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 25th January 2015Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 26th January 2015Describe the allowance system.
- 27th January 2015Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 28th January 2015Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 29th January 2015What is primary socialisation?
- 30th January 2015Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 31st January 2015Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.