Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 2018 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in December 2018, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in December 2018
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2018What is the medical model of disability?
- 2nd December 2018Define intragenerational mobility.
- 3rd December 2018What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 4th December 2018Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 5th December 2018What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 6th December 2018What is the Pupil Premium?
- 7th December 2018What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 8th December 2018How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 9th December 2018According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 10th December 2018Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 11th December 2018Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 12th December 2018What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 13th December 2018A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 14th December 2018Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 15th December 2018Define globalisation.
- 16th December 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.
- 17th December 2018State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 18th December 2018What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 19th December 2018What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 20th December 2018Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 21st December 2018Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 22nd December 2018How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 23rd December 2018What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 24th December 2018What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 25th December 2018What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 26th December 2018Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 27th December 2018Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 28th December 2018Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 29th December 2018Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 30th December 2018Define social mobility.
- 31st December 2018What is meant by 'formal social control'?