Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2016 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2016, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2016What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 2nd May 2016Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 3rd May 2016What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 4th May 2016What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 5th May 2016Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 6th May 2016Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 7th May 2016Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 8th May 2016What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 9th May 2016Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 10th May 2016What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 11th May 2016What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 12th May 2016What is compensatory education?
- 13th May 2016What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 14th May 2016Define 'forced marriage'.
- 15th May 2016Define 'cohabitation'.
- 16th May 2016According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 17th May 2016Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 18th May 2016What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 19th May 2016Define culture.
- 20th May 2016Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 21st May 2016What is the medical model of disability?
- 22nd May 2016Define intragenerational mobility.
- 23rd May 2016Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 24th May 2016What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 25th May 2016Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 26th May 2016What is the Pupil Premium?
- 27th May 2016What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 28th May 2016Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 29th May 2016Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 30th May 2016Describe the allowance system.
- 31st May 2016Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.