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December 2001 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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December 2001

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in December 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 December 2001Give one example of what a Forced Marriage Protection Order might do.
  2. 2nd December 2001Give one functionalist explanation, other than secularisation, for the rise in divorce.
  3. 3rd December 2001Describe the allowance system.
  4. 4th December 2001Give one factor that affects how representative a sample is.
  5. 5th December 2001Give one reason interpretivist sociologists tend to favour participant observation.
  6. 6th December 2001Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  7. 7th December 2001Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  8. 8th December 2001Define globalisation.
  9. 9th December 2001Give 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.
  10. 10th December 2001Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  11. 11th December 2001What is 'primary deviance'?
  12. 12th December 2001How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  13. 13th December 2001Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  14. 14th December 2001Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  15. 15th December 2001Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  16. 16th December 2001Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  17. 17th December 2001Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  18. 18th December 2001What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  19. 19th December 2001What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  20. 20th December 2001Define culture.
  21. 21st December 2001Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  22. 22nd December 2001Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  23. 23rd December 2001Define social mobility.
  24. 24th December 2001According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  25. 25th December 2001According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  26. 26th December 2001Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  27. 27th December 2001What is Sure Start?
  28. 28th December 2001What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  29. 29th December 2001How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  30. 30th December 2001Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  31. 31st December 2001Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?