Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
February 2016 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in February 2016, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in February 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2016Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 2nd February 2016What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 3rd February 2016What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 4th February 2016Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 5th February 2016What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 6th February 2016Define 'forced marriage'.
- 7th February 2016Define 'cohabitation'.
- 8th February 2016According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 9th February 2016Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 10th February 2016What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 11th February 2016Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 12th February 2016Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 13th February 2016Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 14th February 2016What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 15th February 2016Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 16th February 2016What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 17th February 2016Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 18th February 2016What is compensatory education?
- 19th February 2016What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 20th February 2016Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 21st February 2016Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 22nd February 2016Describe the allowance system.
- 23rd February 2016Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 24th February 2016Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 25th February 2016What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 26th February 2016Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 27th February 2016What is the medical model of disability?
- 28th February 2016Define intragenerational mobility.
- 29th February 2016Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.