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January 2020 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2020, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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January 2020

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in January 2020

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

  1. 1st January 2020What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  2. 2nd January 2020Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  3. 3rd January 2020What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  4. 4th January 2020How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  5. 5th January 2020According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  6. 6th January 2020Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  7. 7th January 2020Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  8. 8th January 2020What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  9. 9th January 2020Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  10. 10th January 2020Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  11. 11th January 2020Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  12. 12th January 2020What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  13. 13th January 2020State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  14. 14th January 2020What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  15. 15th January 2020What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  16. 16th January 2020What is compensatory education?
  17. 17th January 2020What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  18. 18th January 2020How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  19. 19th January 2020What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  20. 20th January 2020What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  21. 21st January 2020What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  22. 22nd January 2020Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  23. 23rd January 2020Define culture.
  24. 24th January 2020Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  25. 25th January 2020What is the medical model of disability?
  26. 26th January 2020Define intragenerational mobility.
  27. 27th January 2020What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  28. 28th January 2020What is 'secondary deviance'?
  29. 29th January 2020Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  30. 30th January 2020What is the Pupil Premium?
  31. 31st January 2020What is the difference between streaming and setting?