Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2020 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2020, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2020Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 2nd May 2020Define globalisation.
- 3rd May 2020Give 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.
- 4th May 2020What is meant by 'formal social control'?
- 5th May 2020What is 'secondary deviance'?
- 6th May 2020Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
- 7th May 2020Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 8th May 2020Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 9th May 2020Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
- 10th May 2020What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 11th May 2020Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 12th May 2020What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 13th May 2020What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 14th May 2020Define culture.
- 15th May 2020Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 16th May 2020Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 17th May 2020Define social mobility.
- 18th May 2020Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 19th May 2020What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 20th May 2020What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 21st May 2020What is Sure Start?
- 22nd May 2020What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 23rd May 2020Define 'forced marriage'.
- 24th May 2020Define 'cohabitation'.
- 25th May 2020According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 26th May 2020Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 27th May 2020What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 28th May 2020Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 29th May 2020Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 30th May 2020What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 31st May 2020Define intergenerational mobility.