Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
July 2018 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in July 2018, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in July 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 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.
- 2nd July 2018Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 3rd July 2018What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 4th July 2018What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 5th July 2018Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 6th July 2018Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 7th July 2018Define 'forced marriage'.
- 8th July 2018Define 'cohabitation'.
- 9th July 2018According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 10th July 2018Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 11th July 2018What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 12th July 2018Define culture.
- 13th July 2018Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 14th July 2018Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 15th July 2018Define social mobility.
- 16th July 2018Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 17th July 2018What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 18th July 2018Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 19th July 2018What is Sure Start?
- 20th July 2018What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 21st July 2018Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 22nd July 2018Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 23rd July 2018Describe the allowance system.
- 24th July 2018Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 25th July 2018Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 26th July 2018Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 27th July 2018Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 28th July 2018What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 29th July 2018Define intergenerational mobility.
- 30th July 2018Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 31st July 2018What is 'primary deviance'?