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September 2004 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

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

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September 2004

30 sheets · 150 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in September 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 September 2004Name one aim of punishment prison is generally considered effective at achieving, regardless of its effect on reoffending after release.
  2. 2nd September 2004What is the Pupil Premium?
  3. 3rd September 2004What is the difference between streaming and setting?
  4. 4th September 2004How does a forced marriage differ from an arranged marriage?
  5. 5th September 2004Give one reason for the rise in cohabitation rather than marriage.
  6. 6th September 2004Who identified the four main systems of money management within couples?
  7. 7th September 2004Which is generally higher in an unstructured interview: reliability or validity?
  8. 8th September 2004State one practical problem with recording data during covert participant observation.
  9. 9th September 2004Give one example of a positive sanction and one example of a negative sanction a parent might use.
  10. 10th September 2004Which side of the debate do most sociologists generally favour, and why?
  11. 11th September 2004Define globalisation.
  12. 12th September 2004Give 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.
  13. 13th September 2004What name do sociologists give to the process by which children first learn a society's norms and values within the family?
  14. 14th September 2004Give one criticism of labelling theory.
  15. 15th September 2004What is meant by prison acting as a 'university of crime'?
  16. 16th September 2004Give one criticism of compensatory education policy.
  17. 17th September 2004Give one reason a pupil placed in a low set might achieve less, beyond their own ability.
  18. 18th September 2004How does forced marriage relate to the wider topic of the family and the state?
  19. 19th September 2004According to Anthony Giddens, what is a 'pure relationship'?
  20. 20th September 2004Which money management system has become increasingly common in Britain, according to Pahl?
  21. 21st September 2004Why might a positivist sociologist prioritise reliability and representativeness over validity?
  22. 22nd September 2004What is meant by 'covert' observation?
  23. 23rd September 2004Define culture.
  24. 24th September 2004Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  25. 25th September 2004Explain, using an example, how globalisation can widen inequality between countries.
  26. 26th September 2004Define social mobility.
  27. 27th September 2004State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  28. 28th September 2004What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  29. 29th September 2004What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  30. 30th September 2004What is Sure Start?