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September 2020 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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September 2020

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in September 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 September 2020Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  2. 2nd September 2020What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  3. 3rd September 2020Define culture.
  4. 4th September 2020Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  5. 5th September 2020What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  6. 6th September 2020What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  7. 7th September 2020Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  8. 8th September 2020What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  9. 9th September 2020Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  10. 10th September 2020Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  11. 11th September 2020What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  12. 12th September 2020Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  13. 13th September 2020Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  14. 14th September 2020Describe the allowance system.
  15. 15th September 2020Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  16. 16th September 2020Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  17. 17th September 2020Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  18. 18th September 2020Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  19. 19th September 2020Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  20. 20th September 2020What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  21. 21st September 2020Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  22. 22nd September 2020What is 'primary deviance'?
  23. 23rd September 2020How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  24. 24th September 2020What is compensatory education?
  25. 25th September 2020What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  26. 26th September 2020Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  27. 27th September 2020Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  28. 28th September 2020Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  29. 29th September 2020What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  30. 30th September 2020What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?