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March 2019 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in March 2019, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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March 2019

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 2019

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 2019What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  2. 2nd March 2019How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  3. 3rd March 2019Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  4. 4th March 2019Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  5. 5th March 2019Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  6. 6th March 2019State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  7. 7th March 2019Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  8. 8th March 2019Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  9. 9th March 2019Define globalisation.
  10. 10th March 2019Give 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.
  11. 11th March 2019What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  12. 12th March 2019Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  13. 13th March 2019What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  14. 14th March 2019Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  15. 15th March 2019Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  16. 16th March 2019How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  17. 17th March 2019According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  18. 18th March 2019Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  19. 19th March 2019Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  20. 20th March 2019What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  21. 21st March 2019What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  22. 22nd March 2019Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  23. 23rd March 2019Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  24. 24th March 2019Define social mobility.
  25. 25th March 2019State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  26. 26th March 2019What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  27. 27th March 2019What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  28. 28th March 2019What is Sure Start?
  29. 29th March 2019What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  30. 30th March 2019How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  31. 31st March 2019What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?