Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 2015 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in December 2015, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in December 2015
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2015What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 2nd December 2015What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 3rd December 2015Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 4th December 2015Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 5th December 2015What is the medical model of disability?
- 6th December 2015Define intragenerational mobility.
- 7th December 2015According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 8th December 2015According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 9th December 2015Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 10th December 2015What is the Pupil Premium?
- 11th December 2015What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 12th December 2015How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 13th December 2015Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 14th December 2015Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 15th December 2015Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 16th December 2015State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 17th December 2015Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 18th December 2015Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 19th December 2015Define globalisation.
- 20th December 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.
- 21st December 2015What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 22nd December 2015Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 23rd December 2015What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 24th December 2015Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 25th December 2015Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 26th December 2015How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 27th December 2015According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 28th December 2015Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 29th December 2015Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 30th December 2015What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 31st December 2015What is primary socialisation?