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January 2021 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2021, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in January 2021
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2021What is the difference between streaming and setting?
- 2nd January 2021Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
- 3rd January 2021Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
- 4th January 2021Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
- 5th January 2021What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
- 6th January 2021What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
- 7th January 2021Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
- 8th January 2021Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
- 9th January 2021Define globalisation.
- 10th January 2021Give 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.
- 11th January 2021According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
- 12th January 2021According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
- 13th January 2021Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
- 14th January 2021Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
- 15th January 2021Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
- 16th January 2021How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
- 17th January 2021Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
- 18th January 2021Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
- 19th January 2021Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
- 20th January 2021State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
- 21st January 2021What is the difference between a norm and a value?
- 22nd January 2021Define 'nurture' in the nature versus nurture debate.
- 23rd January 2021Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
- 24th January 2021Define social mobility.
- 25th January 2021What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
- 26th January 2021Give one criticism of labelling theory.
- 27th January 2021What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
- 28th January 2021What is Sure Start?
- 29th January 2021What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
- 30th January 2021How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
- 31st January 2021According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?