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May 2015 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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May 2015

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in May 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 May 2015What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  2. 2nd May 2015Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  3. 3rd May 2015Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  4. 4th May 2015Describe the allowance system.
  5. 5th May 2015Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  6. 6th May 2015Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  7. 7th May 2015Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  8. 8th May 2015Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  9. 9th May 2015What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  10. 10th May 2015Define intergenerational mobility.
  11. 11th May 2015Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  12. 12th May 2015What is 'primary deviance'?
  13. 13th May 2015How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  14. 14th May 2015What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  15. 15th May 2015What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  16. 16th May 2015Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  17. 17th May 2015Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  18. 18th May 2015Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  19. 19th May 2015What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  20. 20th May 2015What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  21. 21st May 2015What is primary socialisation?
  22. 22nd May 2015Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  23. 23rd May 2015What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  24. 24th May 2015What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  25. 25th May 2015According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  26. 26th May 2015According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  27. 27th May 2015Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  28. 28th May 2015Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  29. 29th May 2015What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  30. 30th May 2015How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  31. 31st May 2015Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.