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March 2017 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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March 2017

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 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 March 2017What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  2. 2nd March 2017What is Sure Start?
  3. 3rd March 2017What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  4. 4th March 2017Define 'forced marriage'.
  5. 5th March 2017Define 'cohabitation'.
  6. 6th March 2017According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  7. 7th March 2017Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  8. 8th March 2017What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  9. 9th March 2017Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  10. 10th March 2017Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  11. 11th March 2017What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  12. 12th March 2017Define intergenerational mobility.
  13. 13th March 2017Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  14. 14th March 2017What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  15. 15th March 2017Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  16. 16th March 2017What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  17. 17th March 2017What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  18. 18th March 2017Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  19. 19th March 2017Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  20. 20th March 2017Describe the allowance system.
  21. 21st March 2017Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  22. 22nd March 2017Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  23. 23rd March 2017What is primary socialisation?
  24. 24th March 2017Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  25. 25th March 2017What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  26. 26th March 2017What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  27. 27th March 2017Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  28. 28th March 2017What is 'primary deviance'?
  29. 29th March 2017How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  30. 30th March 2017Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  31. 31st March 2017What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?