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April 2004 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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April 2004

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in April 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 April 2004Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  2. 2nd April 2004Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  3. 3rd April 2004Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  4. 4th April 2004What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  5. 5th April 2004Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  6. 6th April 2004What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  7. 7th April 2004What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  8. 8th April 2004Why might sociologists say that socialisation never really stops?
  9. 9th April 2004Give one type of evidence, other than feral children, that sociologists could use to support a nurture-based explanation of behaviour.
  10. 10th April 2004Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  11. 11th April 2004Define social mobility.
  12. 12th April 2004Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.
  13. 13th April 2004What is meant by a deviant 'master status'?
  14. 14th April 2004What is meant by 'incapacitation' as a function of prison?
  15. 15th April 2004What is Sure Start?
  16. 16th April 2004What does Lacey mean by differentiation?
  17. 17th April 2004Define 'forced marriage'.
  18. 18th April 2004Define 'cohabitation'.
  19. 19th April 2004According to resource theory, what usually determines who has more power over financial decisions in a couple?
  20. 20th April 2004Which is generally higher in a structured, closed questionnaire: reliability or validity?
  21. 21st April 2004What is meant by a researcher 'going native'?
  22. 22nd April 2004Name three agencies of secondary socialisation.
  23. 23rd April 2004Define 'nature' in the nature versus nurture debate.
  24. 24th April 2004What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  25. 25th April 2004Define intergenerational mobility.
  26. 26th April 2004Give one sanction that an informal agency of social control might use.
  27. 27th April 2004What did Jock Young's study of hippie marijuana users find about the effect of police reaction?
  28. 28th April 2004Explain why a labelling theorist would be sceptical that prison alone reduces reoffending.
  29. 29th April 2004What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  30. 30th April 2004What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?