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February 2017 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in February 2017, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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February 2017

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in February 2017

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 2017What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  2. 2nd February 2017What is the Pupil Premium?
  3. 3rd February 2017What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  4. 4th February 2017How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  5. 5th February 2017What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  6. 6th February 2017What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  7. 7th February 2017What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  8. 8th February 2017Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  9. 9th February 2017A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  10. 10th February 2017Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  11. 11th February 2017Define globalisation.
  12. 12th February 2017Give 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.
  13. 13th February 2017What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  14. 14th February 2017What is 'secondary deviance'?
  15. 15th February 2017Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  16. 16th February 2017Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  17. 17th February 2017Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  18. 18th February 2017Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  19. 19th February 2017What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  20. 20th February 2017Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  21. 21st February 2017What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  22. 22nd February 2017What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  23. 23rd February 2017Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  24. 24th February 2017Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  25. 25th February 2017Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  26. 26th February 2017Define social mobility.
  27. 27th February 2017Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  28. 28th February 2017What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?