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November 2021 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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November 2021

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in November 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 November 2021According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  2. 2nd November 2021According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  3. 3rd November 2021Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  4. 4th November 2021Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  5. 5th November 2021What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  6. 6th November 2021How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  7. 7th November 2021Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  8. 8th November 2021Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  9. 9th November 2021Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  10. 10th November 2021State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  11. 11th November 2021Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  12. 12th November 2021Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  13. 13th November 2021Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  14. 14th November 2021What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  15. 15th November 2021What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  16. 16th November 2021Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  17. 17th November 2021What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  18. 18th November 2021What is compensatory education?
  19. 19th November 2021What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  20. 20th November 2021How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  21. 21st November 2021According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  22. 22nd November 2021Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  23. 23rd November 2021Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  24. 24th November 2021What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  25. 25th November 2021Define culture.
  26. 26th November 2021Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  27. 27th November 2021What is the medical model of disability?
  28. 28th November 2021Define intragenerational mobility.
  29. 29th November 2021State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  30. 30th November 2021What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?