Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
April 2024 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in April 2024, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in April 2024
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2024According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 2nd April 2024According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 3rd April 2024Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 4th April 2024Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 5th April 2024Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 6th April 2024How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 7th April 2024Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 8th April 2024Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 9th April 2024Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 10th April 2024State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 11th April 2024What is primary socialisation?
- 12th April 2024Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 13th April 2024Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 14th April 2024Define social mobility.
- 15th April 2024What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 16th April 2024Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 17th April 2024What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 18th April 2024What is Sure Start?
- 19th April 2024What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 20th April 2024How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 21st April 2024According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 22nd April 2024Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 23rd April 2024Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 24th April 2024What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 25th April 2024Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 26th April 2024Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 27th April 2024What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
- 28th April 2024Define intergenerational mobility.
- 29th April 2024State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 30th April 2024What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?