Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
August 2023 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in August 2023, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in August 2023
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2023What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 2nd August 2023What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 3rd August 2023Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 4th August 2023Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 5th August 2023Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 6th August 2023Define social mobility.
- 7th August 2023Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 8th August 2023What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 9th August 2023What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 10th August 2023What is Sure Start?
- 11th August 2023What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 12th August 2023Define 'forced marriage'.
- 13th August 2023Define 'cohabitation'.
- 14th August 2023According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 15th August 2023Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 16th August 2023What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 17th August 2023Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 18th August 2023Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 19th August 2023What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 20th August 2023Define intergenerational mobility.
- 21st August 2023Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 22nd August 2023What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 23rd August 2023Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 24th August 2023What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
- 25th August 2023What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
- 26th August 2023Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 27th August 2023Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 28th August 2023Describe the allowance system.
- 29th August 2023Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 30th August 2023Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 31st August 2023What is primary socialisation?