Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2016 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2016, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2016Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 2nd January 2016Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 3rd January 2016Define social mobility.
- 4th January 2016State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 5th January 2016What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 6th January 2016What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 7th January 2016What is Sure Start?
- 8th January 2016What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 9th January 2016How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 10th January 2016What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 11th January 2016What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 12th January 2016What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 13th January 2016Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 14th January 2016Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 15th January 2016Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 16th January 2016What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 17th January 2016Define intergenerational mobility.
- 18th January 2016What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 19th January 2016What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 20th January 2016Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 21st January 2016What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 22nd January 2016What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 23rd January 2016Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 24th January 2016What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 25th January 2016Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 26th January 2016What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 27th January 2016What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 28th January 2016Define culture.
- 29th January 2016Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 30th January 2016What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 31st January 2016What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?