Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
February 2015 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in February 2015, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in February 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2015Define social mobility.
- 2nd February 2015Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 3rd February 2015What is 'primary deviance'?
- 4th February 2015How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 5th February 2015What is Sure Start?
- 6th February 2015What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 7th February 2015Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 8th February 2015Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 9th February 2015Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 10th February 2015What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 11th February 2015What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 12th February 2015Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 13th February 2015Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 14th February 2015What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 15th February 2015Define intergenerational mobility.
- 16th February 2015According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 17th February 2015According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 18th February 2015Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 19th February 2015What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 20th February 2015What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 21st February 2015How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 22nd February 2015Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 23rd February 2015Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 24th February 2015Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 25th February 2015State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 26th February 2015Define culture.
- 27th February 2015Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 28th February 2015What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?