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March 2015 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in March 2015, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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March 2015

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 2015

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

  1. 1st March 2015What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  2. 2nd March 2015What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  3. 3rd March 2015Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  4. 4th March 2015What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  5. 5th March 2015Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  6. 6th March 2015What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  7. 7th March 2015How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  8. 8th March 2015According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  9. 9th March 2015Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  10. 10th March 2015Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  11. 11th March 2015What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  12. 12th March 2015Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  13. 13th March 2015Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  14. 14th March 2015Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  15. 15th March 2015What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  16. 16th March 2015State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  17. 17th March 2015What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  18. 18th March 2015What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  19. 19th March 2015What is compensatory education?
  20. 20th March 2015What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  21. 21st March 2015How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  22. 22nd March 2015What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  23. 23rd March 2015What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  24. 24th March 2015What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  25. 25th March 2015Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  26. 26th March 2015What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  27. 27th March 2015Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  28. 28th March 2015What is the medical model of disability?
  29. 29th March 2015Define intragenerational mobility.
  30. 30th March 2015What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  31. 31st March 2015What is 'secondary deviance'?