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July 2021 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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July 2021

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in July 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 July 2021Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  2. 2nd July 2021Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  3. 3rd July 2021Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  4. 4th July 2021Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  5. 5th July 2021Describe the allowance system.
  6. 6th July 2021Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  7. 7th July 2021Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  8. 8th July 2021What is primary socialisation?
  9. 9th July 2021Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  10. 10th July 2021Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  11. 11th July 2021Define social mobility.
  12. 12th July 2021Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  13. 13th July 2021What is 'primary deviance'?
  14. 14th July 2021How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  15. 15th July 2021What is Sure Start?
  16. 16th July 2021What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  17. 17th July 2021Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  18. 18th July 2021Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  19. 19th July 2021Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  20. 20th July 2021What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  21. 21st July 2021What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  22. 22nd July 2021Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  23. 23rd July 2021Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  24. 24th July 2021What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  25. 25th July 2021Define intergenerational mobility.
  26. 26th July 2021According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  27. 27th July 2021According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  28. 28th July 2021Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  29. 29th July 2021What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  30. 30th July 2021What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  31. 31st July 2021How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?