Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2018 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2018, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2018What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 2nd May 2018What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 3rd May 2018A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 4th May 2018Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 5th May 2018What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 6th May 2018Define intergenerational mobility.
- 7th May 2018According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 8th May 2018According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 9th May 2018Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 10th May 2018What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 11th May 2018What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 12th May 2018How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 13th May 2018Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 14th May 2018Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 15th May 2018Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 16th May 2018State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 17th May 2018Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 18th May 2018Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 19th May 2018What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 20th May 2018What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 21st May 2018What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 22nd May 2018Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 23rd May 2018What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 24th May 2018Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 25th May 2018What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 26th May 2018How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 27th May 2018According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 28th May 2018Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 29th May 2018Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 30th May 2018What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 31st May 2018Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.