Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 2016 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in December 2016, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in December 2016
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2016What is primary socialisation?
- 2nd December 2016Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 3rd December 2016Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 4th December 2016Define social mobility.
- 5th December 2016Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 6th December 2016What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 7th December 2016Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 8th December 2016What is Sure Start?
- 9th December 2016What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 10th December 2016Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 11th December 2016Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 12th December 2016Describe the allowance system.
- 13th December 2016Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 14th December 2016Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 15th December 2016Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 16th December 2016Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 17th December 2016What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 18th December 2016Define intergenerational mobility.
- 19th December 2016Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 20th December 2016What is 'primary deviance'?
- 21st December 2016How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 22nd December 2016What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 23rd December 2016What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 24th December 2016Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 25th December 2016Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 26th December 2016Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 27th December 2016What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 28th December 2016What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 29th December 2016Define culture.
- 30th December 2016Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 31st December 2016What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?