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August 2001 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day
Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in August 2001, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.
Every sheet in August 2001
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 2001What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
- 2nd August 2001What is primary socialisation?
- 3rd August 2001Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
- 4th August 2001What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
- 5th August 2001What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
- 6th August 2001Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
- 7th August 2001What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
- 8th August 2001What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
- 9th August 2001Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
- 10th August 2001What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
- 11th August 2001Define 'forced marriage'.
- 12th August 2001Define 'cohabitation'.
- 13th August 2001According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
- 14th August 2001Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
- 15th August 2001What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
- 16th August 2001Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
- 17th August 2001Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
- 18th August 2001Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
- 19th August 2001What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
- 20th August 2001Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
- 21st August 2001What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
- 22nd August 2001Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
- 23rd August 2001What is compensatory education?
- 24th August 2001What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
- 25th August 2001Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
- 26th August 2001Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
- 27th August 2001Describe the allowance system.
- 28th August 2001Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
- 29th August 2001Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
- 30th August 2001Define culture.
- 31st August 2001Who was Genie, and what did her case show?