Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 2017 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in August 2017, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in August 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2017Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 2nd August 2017What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 3rd August 2017Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 4th August 2017Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 5th August 2017How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 6th August 2017According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 7th August 2017Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 8th August 2017Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 9th August 2017What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 10th August 2017Define culture.
- 11th August 2017Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 12th August 2017Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 13th August 2017Define social mobility.
- 14th August 2017State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 15th August 2017What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 16th August 2017What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 17th August 2017What is Sure Start?
- 18th August 2017What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 19th August 2017How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 20th August 2017What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 21st August 2017What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 22nd August 2017What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 23rd August 2017Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 24th August 2017Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 25th August 2017Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 26th August 2017What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 27th August 2017Define intergenerational mobility.
- 28th August 2017What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 29th August 2017What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 30th August 2017Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 31st August 2017What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?