Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2017 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2017, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2017Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 2nd May 2017Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 3rd May 2017What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 4th May 2017Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 5th May 2017Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 6th May 2017Define globalisation.
- 7th May 2017Give 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.
- 8th May 2017State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 9th May 2017What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 10th May 2017What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 11th May 2017Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 12th May 2017Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 13th May 2017How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 14th May 2017What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 15th May 2017What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 16th May 2017What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 17th May 2017Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 18th May 2017What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 19th May 2017Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 20th May 2017Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 21st May 2017Define social mobility.
- 22nd May 2017What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 23rd May 2017What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 24th May 2017Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 25th May 2017What is Sure Start?
- 26th May 2017What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 27th May 2017Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 28th May 2017What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 29th May 2017Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 30th May 2017What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 31st May 2017What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?