Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
September 2016 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in September 2016, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in September 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st September 2016Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 2nd September 2016Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 3rd September 2016Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 4th September 2016Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 5th September 2016Describe the allowance system.
- 6th September 2016Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 7th September 2016Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 8th September 2016Define culture.
- 9th September 2016Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 10th September 2016Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 11th September 2016Define social mobility.
- 12th September 2016Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 13th September 2016What is 'primary deviance'?
- 14th September 2016How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 15th September 2016What is Sure Start?
- 16th September 2016What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 17th September 2016Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 18th September 2016Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 19th September 2016Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 20th September 2016What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 21st September 2016What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 22nd September 2016Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 23rd September 2016Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 24th September 2016What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 25th September 2016Define intergenerational mobility.
- 26th September 2016According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 27th September 2016According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 28th September 2016Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 29th September 2016What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 30th September 2016What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?