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February 2014 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in February 2014, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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February 2014

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in February 2014

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st February 2014What is the medical model of disability?
  2. 2nd February 2014Define intragenerational mobility.
  3. 3rd February 2014What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  4. 4th February 2014Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  5. 5th February 2014What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  6. 6th February 2014What is the Pupil Premium?
  7. 7th February 2014What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  8. 8th February 2014How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  9. 9th February 2014According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  10. 10th February 2014Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  11. 11th February 2014Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  12. 12th February 2014What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  13. 13th February 2014Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  14. 14th February 2014Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  15. 15th February 2014Define globalisation.
  16. 16th February 2014Give 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.
  17. 17th February 2014State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  18. 18th February 2014What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  19. 19th February 2014What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  20. 20th February 2014Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  21. 21st February 2014Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  22. 22nd February 2014How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  23. 23rd February 2014What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  24. 24th February 2014What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  25. 25th February 2014What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  26. 26th February 2014Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  27. 27th February 2014What is primary socialisation?
  28. 28th February 2014Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?