Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
June 2016 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in June 2016, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in June 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 2016Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 2nd June 2016Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 3rd June 2016Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 4th June 2016Define globalisation.
- 5th June 2016Give 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.
- 6th June 2016Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 7th June 2016What is 'primary deviance'?
- 8th June 2016How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 9th June 2016Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 10th June 2016Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 11th June 2016Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 12th June 2016Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 13th June 2016Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 14th June 2016What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 15th June 2016What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 16th June 2016What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 17th June 2016Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 18th June 2016Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 19th June 2016Define social mobility.
- 20th June 2016According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 21st June 2016According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 22nd June 2016Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 23rd June 2016What is Sure Start?
- 24th June 2016What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 25th June 2016How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 26th June 2016Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 27th June 2016Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 28th June 2016Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 29th June 2016State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 30th June 2016A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?