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December 2017 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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December 2017

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in December 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 December 2017Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  2. 2nd December 2017What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  3. 3rd December 2017What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  4. 4th December 2017What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  5. 5th December 2017What is 'secondary deviance'?
  6. 6th December 2017Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  7. 7th December 2017Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  8. 8th December 2017What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  9. 9th December 2017Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  10. 10th December 2017What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  11. 11th December 2017Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  12. 12th December 2017What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  13. 13th December 2017What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  14. 14th December 2017Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  15. 15th December 2017Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  16. 16th December 2017Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  17. 17th December 2017What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  18. 18th December 2017Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  19. 19th December 2017What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  20. 20th December 2017What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  21. 21st December 2017What is compensatory education?
  22. 22nd December 2017What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  23. 23rd December 2017Define 'forced marriage'.
  24. 24th December 2017Define 'cohabitation'.
  25. 25th December 2017According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  26. 26th December 2017Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  27. 27th December 2017What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  28. 28th December 2017What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  29. 29th December 2017Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  30. 30th December 2017What is the medical model of disability?
  31. 31st December 2017Define intragenerational mobility.