Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
October 2017 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in October 2017, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in October 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2017Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 2nd October 2017Describe the allowance system.
- 3rd October 2017Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 4th October 2017Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 5th October 2017Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 6th October 2017Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 7th October 2017What is the medical model of disability?
- 8th October 2017Define intragenerational mobility.
- 9th October 2017Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 10th October 2017What is 'primary deviance'?
- 11th October 2017How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 12th October 2017What is the Pupil Premium?
- 13th October 2017What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 14th October 2017Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 15th October 2017Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 16th October 2017Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 17th October 2017What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 18th October 2017What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 19th October 2017Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 20th October 2017Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 21st October 2017Define globalisation.
- 22nd October 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.
- 23rd October 2017According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 24th October 2017According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 25th October 2017Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 26th October 2017Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 27th October 2017Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 28th October 2017How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 29th October 2017Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 30th October 2017Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 31st October 2017Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?