Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
January 2018 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2018, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2018Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 2nd January 2018What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 3rd January 2018Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 4th January 2018What is the Pupil Premium?
- 5th January 2018What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 6th January 2018Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 7th January 2018Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 8th January 2018Describe the allowance system.
- 9th January 2018Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 10th January 2018Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 11th January 2018A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 12th January 2018Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 13th January 2018Define globalisation.
- 14th January 2018Give 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.
- 15th January 2018Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 16th January 2018What is 'primary deviance'?
- 17th January 2018How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 18th January 2018Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 19th January 2018Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 20th January 2018Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 21st January 2018Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 22nd January 2018Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 23rd January 2018What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 24th January 2018What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 25th January 2018Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 26th January 2018Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 27th January 2018Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 28th January 2018Define social mobility.
- 29th January 2018According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 30th January 2018According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 31st January 2018Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.