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April 2020 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in April 2020, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in April 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st April 2020State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 2nd April 2020Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
- 3rd April 2020Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 4th April 2020Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 5th April 2020What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 6th April 2020What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 7th April 2020Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 8th April 2020What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 9th April 2020What is compensatory education?
- 10th April 2020What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 11th April 2020How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 12th April 2020According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 13th April 2020Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 14th April 2020Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 15th April 2020What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 16th April 2020What is primary socialisation?
- 17th April 2020Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 18th April 2020What is the medical model of disability?
- 19th April 2020Define intragenerational mobility.
- 20th April 2020State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
- 21st April 2020What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
- 22nd April 2020What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
- 23rd April 2020What is the Pupil Premium?
- 24th April 2020What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 25th April 2020How might feminists explain forced marriage?
- 26th April 2020What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
- 27th April 2020What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
- 28th April 2020What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
- 29th April 2020Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
- 30th April 2020Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.