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January 2023 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2023, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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January 2023

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in January 2023

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

  1. 1st January 2023What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  2. 2nd January 2023What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  3. 3rd January 2023What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  4. 4th January 2023Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  5. 5th January 2023Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  6. 6th January 2023Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  7. 7th January 2023Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  8. 8th January 2023What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  9. 9th January 2023What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  10. 10th January 2023What is 'secondary deviance'?
  11. 11th January 2023Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  12. 12th January 2023What is compensatory education?
  13. 13th January 2023What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  14. 14th January 2023Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  15. 15th January 2023What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  16. 16th January 2023Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  17. 17th January 2023What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  18. 18th January 2023What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  19. 19th January 2023What is primary socialisation?
  20. 20th January 2023Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  21. 21st January 2023What is the medical model of disability?
  22. 22nd January 2023Define intragenerational mobility.
  23. 23rd January 2023Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  24. 24th January 2023What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  25. 25th January 2023What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  26. 26th January 2023What is the Pupil Premium?
  27. 27th January 2023What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  28. 28th January 2023Define 'forced marriage'.
  29. 29th January 2023Define 'cohabitation'.
  30. 30th January 2023According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  31. 31st January 2023Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?