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July 2017 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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July 2017

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in July 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 July 2017Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  2. 2nd July 2017What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  3. 3rd July 2017Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  4. 4th July 2017What is 'primary deviance'?
  5. 5th July 2017How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  6. 6th July 2017What is compensatory education?
  7. 7th July 2017What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  8. 8th July 2017Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  9. 9th July 2017Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  10. 10th July 2017Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  11. 11th July 2017What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  12. 12th July 2017What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  13. 13th July 2017What is primary socialisation?
  14. 14th July 2017Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  15. 15th July 2017What is the medical model of disability?
  16. 16th July 2017Define intragenerational mobility.
  17. 17th July 2017According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  18. 18th July 2017According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  19. 19th July 2017Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  20. 20th July 2017What is the Pupil Premium?
  21. 21st July 2017What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  22. 22nd July 2017How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  23. 23rd July 2017Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  24. 24th July 2017Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  25. 25th July 2017Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  26. 26th July 2017State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  27. 27th July 2017Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  28. 28th July 2017Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  29. 29th July 2017Define globalisation.
  30. 30th July 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.
  31. 31st July 2017What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?