Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
November 2017 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in November 2017, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in November 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 2017State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 2nd November 2017What is primary socialisation?
- 3rd November 2017Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 4th November 2017Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 5th November 2017Define social mobility.
- 6th November 2017What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 7th November 2017Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 8th November 2017What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 9th November 2017What is Sure Start?
- 10th November 2017What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 11th November 2017How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 12th November 2017According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 13th November 2017Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 14th November 2017Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 15th November 2017What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 16th November 2017Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 17th November 2017Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 18th November 2017What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 19th November 2017Define intergenerational mobility.
- 20th November 2017State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 21st November 2017What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 22nd November 2017What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 23rd November 2017What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 24th November 2017What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 25th November 2017How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 26th November 2017What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 27th November 2017What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 28th November 2017What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 29th November 2017Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 30th November 2017Define culture.