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August 2020 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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August 2020

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in August 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 August 2020How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  2. 2nd August 2020What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  3. 3rd August 2020What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  4. 4th August 2020What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  5. 5th August 2020Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  6. 6th August 2020What is primary socialisation?
  7. 7th August 2020Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  8. 8th August 2020Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  9. 9th August 2020Define social mobility.
  10. 10th August 2020What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  11. 11th August 2020What is 'secondary deviance'?
  12. 12th August 2020Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  13. 13th August 2020What is Sure Start?
  14. 14th August 2020What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  15. 15th August 2020Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  16. 16th August 2020What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  17. 17th August 2020Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  18. 18th August 2020What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  19. 19th August 2020What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  20. 20th August 2020Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  21. 21st August 2020Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  22. 22nd August 2020What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  23. 23rd August 2020Define intergenerational mobility.
  24. 24th August 2020Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  25. 25th August 2020What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  26. 26th August 2020What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  27. 27th August 2020What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  28. 28th August 2020What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  29. 29th August 2020Define 'forced marriage'.
  30. 30th August 2020Define 'cohabitation'.
  31. 31st August 2020According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?