Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
September 2015 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in September 2015, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in September 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2015According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 2nd September 2015Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 3rd September 2015What is compensatory education?
- 4th September 2015What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 5th September 2015How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 6th September 2015Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 7th September 2015Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 8th September 2015Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 9th September 2015State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 10th September 2015What is primary socialisation?
- 11th September 2015Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 12th September 2015What is the medical model of disability?
- 13th September 2015Define intragenerational mobility.
- 14th September 2015What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 15th September 2015Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 16th September 2015What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 17th September 2015What is the Pupil Premium?
- 18th September 2015What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 19th September 2015How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 20th September 2015According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 21st September 2015Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 22nd September 2015Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 23rd September 2015What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 24th September 2015Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 25th September 2015Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 26th September 2015Define globalisation.
- 27th September 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.
- 28th September 2015State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 29th September 2015What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 30th September 2015What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?