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September 2003 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in September 2003, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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September 2003

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in September 2003

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

  1. 1st September 2003State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  2. 2nd September 2003What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  3. 3rd September 2003What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  4. 4th September 2003Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  5. 5th September 2003What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  6. 6th September 2003How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  7. 7th September 2003What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  8. 8th September 2003What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  9. 9th September 2003What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  10. 10th September 2003Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  11. 11th September 2003Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  12. 12th September 2003Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  13. 13th September 2003Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  14. 14th September 2003What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  15. 15th September 2003What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  16. 16th September 2003What is 'secondary deviance'?
  17. 17th September 2003Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  18. 18th September 2003What is compensatory education?
  19. 19th September 2003What does Lacey mean by polarisation?
  20. 20th September 2003Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  21. 21st September 2003What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  22. 22nd September 2003Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  23. 23rd September 2003What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  24. 24th September 2003What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  25. 25th September 2003What is primary socialisation?
  26. 26th September 2003Why might a sociologist argue that nature and nurture interact rather than one alone explaining behaviour?
  27. 27th September 2003What is the medical model of disability?
  28. 28th September 2003Define intragenerational mobility.
  29. 29th September 2003Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  30. 30th September 2003What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?