Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 2016 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in October 2016, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in October 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2016How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 2nd October 2016Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 3rd October 2016Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 4th October 2016Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 5th October 2016State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 6th October 2016What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 7th October 2016Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 8th October 2016What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 9th October 2016What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 10th October 2016What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 11th October 2016Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 12th October 2016What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 13th October 2016Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 14th October 2016What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 15th October 2016How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 16th October 2016According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 17th October 2016Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 18th October 2016Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 19th October 2016What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 20th October 2016A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 21st October 2016Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 22nd October 2016Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 23rd October 2016What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 24th October 2016State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 25th October 2016What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 26th October 2016What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 27th October 2016What is compensatory education?
- 28th October 2016What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 29th October 2016How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 30th October 2016What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 31st October 2016What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?