Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 2015 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in August 2015, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in August 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2015What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 2nd August 2015Define intergenerational mobility.
- 3rd August 2015Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 4th August 2015What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 5th August 2015Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 6th August 2015What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 7th August 2015What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 8th August 2015Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 9th August 2015Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 10th August 2015Describe the allowance system.
- 11th August 2015Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 12th August 2015Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 13th August 2015Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 14th August 2015Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 15th August 2015What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 16th August 2015What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 17th August 2015Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 18th August 2015What is 'primary deviance'?
- 19th August 2015How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 20th August 2015Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 21st August 2015What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 22nd August 2015Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 23rd August 2015Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 24th August 2015Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 25th August 2015What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 26th August 2015What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 27th August 2015Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 28th August 2015Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 29th August 2015Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 30th August 2015What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 31st August 2015According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?