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April 2018 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in April 2018, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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April 2018

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 2018

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st April 2018Define 'cohabitation'.
  2. 2nd April 2018According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  3. 3rd April 2018Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  4. 4th April 2018What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  5. 5th April 2018Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  6. 6th April 2018Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  7. 7th April 2018Define globalisation.
  8. 8th April 2018Give 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.
  9. 9th April 2018Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  10. 10th April 2018What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  11. 11th April 2018Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  12. 12th April 2018Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  13. 13th April 2018Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  14. 14th April 2018Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  15. 15th April 2018Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  16. 16th April 2018Describe the allowance system.
  17. 17th April 2018Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  18. 18th April 2018Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  19. 19th April 2018What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  20. 20th April 2018Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  21. 21st April 2018Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  22. 22nd April 2018Define social mobility.
  23. 23rd April 2018Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  24. 24th April 2018What is 'primary deviance'?
  25. 25th April 2018How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  26. 26th April 2018What is Sure Start?
  27. 27th April 2018What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  28. 28th April 2018Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  29. 29th April 2018Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  30. 30th April 2018Name Pahl's four systems of money management.