Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 2015 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in October 2015, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in October 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2015Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 2nd October 2015Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 3rd October 2015How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 4th October 2015What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 5th October 2015What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 6th October 2015What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 7th October 2015Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 8th October 2015Define culture.
- 9th October 2015Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 10th October 2015Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 11th October 2015Define social mobility.
- 12th October 2015What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 13th October 2015What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 14th October 2015Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 15th October 2015What is Sure Start?
- 16th October 2015What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 17th October 2015Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 18th October 2015What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 19th October 2015Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 20th October 2015What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 21st October 2015What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 22nd October 2015Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 23rd October 2015Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 24th October 2015What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 25th October 2015Define intergenerational mobility.
- 26th October 2015Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 27th October 2015What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 28th October 2015What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 29th October 2015What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 30th October 2015What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 31st October 2015Define 'forced marriage'.