Daily Practice · GCSE Sociology
December 2024 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in December 2024, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in December 2024
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2024What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
- 2nd December 2024Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
- 3rd December 2024What is meant by 'representativeness'?
- 4th December 2024What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 5th December 2024Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 6th December 2024Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 7th December 2024Define globalisation.
- 8th December 2024Give 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.
- 9th December 2024Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 10th December 2024What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 11th December 2024What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 12th December 2024Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 13th December 2024Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 14th December 2024Define 'forced marriage'.
- 15th December 2024Define 'cohabitation'.
- 16th December 2024According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 17th December 2024Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 18th December 2024What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 19th December 2024Define culture.
- 20th December 2024Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
- 21st December 2024Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 22nd December 2024Define social mobility.
- 23rd December 2024Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 24th December 2024What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 25th December 2024Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 26th December 2024What is Sure Start?
- 27th December 2024What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 28th December 2024Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 29th December 2024Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 30th December 2024Describe the allowance system.
- 31st December 2024Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.