Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2017 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2017, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2017What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 2nd January 2017According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 3rd January 2017According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 4th January 2017Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 5th January 2017Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 6th January 2017What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 7th January 2017How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 8th January 2017Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 9th January 2017Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 10th January 2017Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 11th January 2017State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 12th January 2017Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 13th January 2017Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 14th January 2017Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 15th January 2017What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 16th January 2017What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 17th January 2017Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 18th January 2017What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 19th January 2017What is compensatory education?
- 20th January 2017What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 21st January 2017How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 22nd January 2017According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 23rd January 2017Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 24th January 2017Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 25th January 2017What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 26th January 2017What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 27th January 2017Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 28th January 2017What is the medical model of disability?
- 29th January 2017Define intragenerational mobility.
- 30th January 2017State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 31st January 2017What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?