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February 2004 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in February 2004, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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February 2004

29 sheets · 145 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in February 2004

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

  1. 1st February 2004Define intergenerational mobility.
  2. 2nd February 2004Explain why most social control in everyday life is informal rather than formal.
  3. 3rd February 2004What is 'primary deviance'?
  4. 4th February 2004How can the label 'ex-convict' become a master status?
  5. 5th February 2004What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  6. 6th February 2004What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  7. 7th February 2004Name the act that introduced Forced Marriage Protection Orders in England and Wales.
  8. 8th February 2004Name the act that introduced 'irretrievable breakdown' as the sole ground for divorce in England and Wales.
  9. 9th February 2004Name Pahl's four systems of money management.
  10. 10th February 2004What is meant by 'reliability' in sociological research?
  11. 11th February 2004What is the difference between participant and non-participant observation?
  12. 12th February 2004Define culture.
  13. 13th February 2004Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  14. 14th February 2004What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  15. 15th February 2004What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  16. 16th February 2004According to Durkheim, what is the 'collective conscience'?
  17. 17th February 2004According to Howard Becker, what makes an act deviant?
  18. 18th February 2004Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  19. 19th February 2004Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  20. 20th February 2004What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  21. 21st February 2004How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  22. 22nd February 2004Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  23. 23rd February 2004Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  24. 24th February 2004Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  25. 25th February 2004State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  26. 26th February 2004Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  27. 27th February 2004Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  28. 28th February 2004Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  29. 29th February 2004What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?