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February 2021 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in February 2021, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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February 2021

28 sheets · 140 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in February 2021

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st February 2021Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  2. 2nd February 2021Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  3. 3rd February 2021What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  4. 4th February 2021A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  5. 5th February 2021Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  6. 6th February 2021What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  7. 7th February 2021Define intergenerational mobility.
  8. 8th February 2021State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  9. 9th February 2021What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  10. 10th February 2021What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  11. 11th February 2021What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  12. 12th February 2021What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  13. 13th February 2021How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  14. 14th February 2021What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  15. 15th February 2021What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  16. 16th February 2021What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  17. 17th February 2021Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  18. 18th February 2021Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  19. 19th February 2021Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  20. 20th February 2021What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  21. 21st February 2021What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  22. 22nd February 2021What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  23. 23rd February 2021What is 'secondary deviance'?
  24. 24th February 2021Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  25. 25th February 2021Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  26. 26th February 2021What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  27. 27th February 2021Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  28. 28th February 2021What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?