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February 2020 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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February 2020

29 sheets · 145 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in February 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 February 2020Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  2. 2nd February 2020What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  3. 3rd February 2020Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  4. 4th February 2020What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  5. 5th February 2020What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  6. 6th February 2020Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  7. 7th February 2020Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  8. 8th February 2020Define globalisation.
  9. 9th February 2020Give 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.
  10. 10th February 2020Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  11. 11th February 2020What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  12. 12th February 2020What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  13. 13th February 2020Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  14. 14th February 2020Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  15. 15th February 2020Define 'forced marriage'.
  16. 16th February 2020Define 'cohabitation'.
  17. 17th February 2020According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  18. 18th February 2020Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  19. 19th February 2020What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  20. 20th February 2020What is the difference between a norm and a value?
  21. 21st February 2020Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  22. 22nd February 2020Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  23. 23rd February 2020Define social mobility.
  24. 24th February 2020Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  25. 25th February 2020What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  26. 26th February 2020Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  27. 27th February 2020What is Sure Start?
  28. 28th February 2020What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  29. 29th February 2020Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.