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June 2017 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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June 2017

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in June 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 June 2017A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  2. 2nd June 2017Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  3. 3rd June 2017What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  4. 4th June 2017Define intergenerational mobility.
  5. 5th June 2017Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  6. 6th June 2017What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  7. 7th June 2017What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  8. 8th June 2017What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  9. 9th June 2017What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  10. 10th June 2017Define 'forced marriage'.
  11. 11th June 2017Define 'cohabitation'.
  12. 12th June 2017According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  13. 13th June 2017Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  14. 14th June 2017What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  15. 15th June 2017Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  16. 16th June 2017Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  17. 17th June 2017What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  18. 18th June 2017What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  19. 19th June 2017Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  20. 20th June 2017What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  21. 21st June 2017Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  22. 22nd June 2017Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  23. 23rd June 2017What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  24. 24th June 2017Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  25. 25th June 2017Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  26. 26th June 2017Describe the allowance system.
  27. 27th June 2017Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  28. 28th June 2017Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  29. 29th June 2017Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  30. 30th June 2017Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.