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April 2016 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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April 2016

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 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 April 2016What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  2. 2nd April 2016How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  3. 3rd April 2016According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  4. 4th April 2016Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  5. 5th April 2016Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  6. 6th April 2016What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  7. 7th April 2016Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  8. 8th April 2016Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  9. 9th April 2016What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  10. 10th April 2016Define intergenerational mobility.
  11. 11th April 2016State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  12. 12th April 2016What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  13. 13th April 2016What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  14. 14th April 2016What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  15. 15th April 2016What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  16. 16th April 2016How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  17. 17th April 2016What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  18. 18th April 2016What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  19. 19th April 2016What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  20. 20th April 2016Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  21. 21st April 2016What is primary socialisation?
  22. 22nd April 2016Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  23. 23rd April 2016What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  24. 24th April 2016What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  25. 25th April 2016What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  26. 26th April 2016What is 'secondary deviance'?
  27. 27th April 2016Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  28. 28th April 2016Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  29. 29th April 2016What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  30. 30th April 2016Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.