Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 2021 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in April 2021, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in April 2021
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2021Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 2nd April 2021Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 3rd April 2021Define globalisation.
- 4th April 2021Give 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.
- 5th April 2021Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 6th April 2021What is 'primary deviance'?
- 7th April 2021How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
- 8th April 2021Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 9th April 2021Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 10th April 2021Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 11th April 2021Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 12th April 2021Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 13th April 2021What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 14th April 2021What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 15th April 2021Define culture.
- 16th April 2021Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 17th April 2021Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 18th April 2021Define social mobility.
- 19th April 2021According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 20th April 2021According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 21st April 2021Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 22nd April 2021What is Sure Start?
- 23rd April 2021What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 24th April 2021How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 25th April 2021Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 26th April 2021Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 27th April 2021Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 28th April 2021State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 29th April 2021Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 30th April 2021Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.