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October 2020 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in October 2020, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in October 2020
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 2020What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 2nd October 2020Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 3rd October 2020What is the medical model of disability?
- 4th October 2020Define intragenerational mobility.
- 5th October 2020According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 6th October 2020According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 7th October 2020Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 8th October 2020What is the Pupil Premium?
- 9th October 2020What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 10th October 2020How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 11th October 2020Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 12th October 2020Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 13th October 2020Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 14th October 2020State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 15th October 2020A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
- 16th October 2020Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
- 17th October 2020Define globalisation.
- 18th October 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.
- 19th October 2020What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 20th October 2020Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 21st October 2020What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 22nd October 2020Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 23rd October 2020Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 24th October 2020How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 25th October 2020According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
- 26th October 2020Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
- 27th October 2020Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
- 28th October 2020What is meant by 'covert' observation?
- 29th October 2020Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
- 30th October 2020Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
- 31st October 2020Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.