Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
May 2023 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in May 2023, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in May 2023
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 2023Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 2nd May 2023What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 3rd May 2023What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 4th May 2023Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 5th May 2023Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 6th May 2023Define 'forced marriage'.
- 7th May 2023Define 'cohabitation'.
- 8th May 2023According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 9th May 2023Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 10th May 2023What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 11th May 2023What is primary socialisation?
- 12th May 2023Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 13th May 2023Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 14th May 2023Define social mobility.
- 15th May 2023Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 16th May 2023What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 17th May 2023Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 18th May 2023What is Sure Start?
- 19th May 2023What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 20th May 2023Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 21st May 2023Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 22nd May 2023Describe the allowance system.
- 23rd May 2023Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 24th May 2023Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 25th May 2023Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 26th May 2023Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 27th May 2023What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 28th May 2023Define intergenerational mobility.
- 29th May 2023Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
- 30th May 2023What is 'primary deviance'?
- 31st May 2023How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?