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March 2022 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in March 2022, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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March 2022

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 2022

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

  1. 1st March 2022Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  2. 2nd March 2022What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  3. 3rd March 2022Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  4. 4th March 2022Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  5. 5th March 2022Define globalisation.
  6. 6th March 2022Give 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.
  7. 7th March 2022State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  8. 8th March 2022What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  9. 9th March 2022What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  10. 10th March 2022Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  11. 11th March 2022Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  12. 12th March 2022How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  13. 13th March 2022What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  14. 14th March 2022What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  15. 15th March 2022What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  16. 16th March 2022Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  17. 17th March 2022Define culture.
  18. 18th March 2022Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  19. 19th March 2022Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  20. 20th March 2022Define social mobility.
  21. 21st March 2022What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  22. 22nd March 2022What is 'secondary deviance'?
  23. 23rd March 2022Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  24. 24th March 2022What is Sure Start?
  25. 25th March 2022What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  26. 26th March 2022Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  27. 27th March 2022What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  28. 28th March 2022Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  29. 29th March 2022What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  30. 30th March 2022What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  31. 31st March 2022Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.