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March 2001 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in March 2001, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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March 2001

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in March 2001

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 2001A teenager starts dressing and speaking like their friendship group to fit in. Which agency of socialisation is mainly responsible?
  2. 2nd March 2001Who was Oxana Malaya, and what did her case show?
  3. 3rd March 2001Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  4. 4th March 2001What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  5. 5th March 2001According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  6. 6th March 2001According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  7. 7th March 2001Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  8. 8th March 2001What is compensatory education?
  9. 9th March 2001What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  10. 10th March 2001How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  11. 11th March 2001Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  12. 12th March 2001Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  13. 13th March 2001Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  14. 14th March 2001State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  15. 15th March 2001Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  16. 16th March 2001Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  17. 17th March 2001What is the medical model of disability?
  18. 18th March 2001Define intragenerational mobility.
  19. 19th March 2001What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  20. 20th March 2001Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  21. 21st March 2001What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  22. 22nd March 2001What is the Pupil Premium?
  23. 23rd March 2001What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  24. 24th March 2001How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  25. 25th March 2001According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  26. 26th March 2001Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  27. 27th March 2001Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  28. 28th March 2001What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  29. 29th March 2001Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  30. 30th March 2001Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  31. 31st March 2001Define globalisation.