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March 2016 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in March 2016, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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March 2016

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 2016

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 2016What is 'primary deviance'?
  2. 2nd March 2016How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  3. 3rd March 2016What is the Pupil Premium?
  4. 4th March 2016What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  5. 5th March 2016Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  6. 6th March 2016Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  7. 7th March 2016Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  8. 8th March 2016What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  9. 9th March 2016What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  10. 10th March 2016A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  11. 11th March 2016Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  12. 12th March 2016Define globalisation.
  13. 13th March 2016Give 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.
  14. 14th March 2016According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  15. 15th March 2016According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  16. 16th March 2016Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  17. 17th March 2016Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  18. 18th March 2016Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  19. 19th March 2016How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  20. 20th March 2016Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  21. 21st March 2016Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  22. 22nd March 2016Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  23. 23rd March 2016State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  24. 24th March 2016Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  25. 25th March 2016Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  26. 26th March 2016Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  27. 27th March 2016Define social mobility.
  28. 28th March 2016What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  29. 29th March 2016Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  30. 30th March 2016What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  31. 31st March 2016What is Sure Start?