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December 2020 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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December 2020

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in December 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 December 2020What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  2. 2nd December 2020What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  3. 3rd December 2020Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  4. 4th December 2020What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  5. 5th December 2020Define 'forced marriage'.
  6. 6th December 2020Define 'cohabitation'.
  7. 7th December 2020According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  8. 8th December 2020Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  9. 9th December 2020What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  10. 10th December 2020Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  11. 11th December 2020Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  12. 12th December 2020Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  13. 13th December 2020What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  14. 14th December 2020Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  15. 15th December 2020What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  16. 16th December 2020Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  17. 17th December 2020What is compensatory education?
  18. 18th December 2020What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  19. 19th December 2020Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  20. 20th December 2020Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  21. 21st December 2020Describe the allowance system.
  22. 22nd December 2020Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  23. 23rd December 2020Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  24. 24th December 2020Define culture.
  25. 25th December 2020Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  26. 26th December 2020What is the medical model of disability?
  27. 27th December 2020Define intragenerational mobility.
  28. 28th December 2020Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  29. 29th December 2020What is 'primary deviance'?
  30. 30th December 2020How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  31. 31st December 2020What is the Pupil Premium?