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January 2005 - GCSE Sociology 5-a-day

Every GCSE Sociology sheet published in January 2005, with answers. Key thinkers, studies, methods and the terms an answer has to use.

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January 2005

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in January 2005

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

  1. 1st January 2005What is Sklair's 'transnational capitalist class'?
  2. 2nd January 2005Define intergenerational mobility.
  3. 3rd January 2005State one formal agency of social control and one power it holds.
  4. 4th January 2005What term do interactionists use for people or groups with the power to create new rules about what counts as deviant?
  5. 5th January 2005What term describes an offender being convicted of a further offence after release from prison?
  6. 6th January 2005What is the American programme, offering pre-school support to disadvantaged children, often mentioned alongside UK compensatory education policy?
  7. 7th January 2005What term did Willis's lads use for conforming pupils who accepted school values?
  8. 8th January 2005How might feminists explain forced marriage?
  9. 9th January 2005What did the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 change?
  10. 10th January 2005What is the difference between 'management' and 'control' of household money?
  11. 11th January 2005What is meant by 'validity' in sociological research?
  12. 12th January 2005Give one ethical advantage of overt observation over covert observation.
  13. 13th January 2005Define culture.
  14. 14th January 2005Who was Genie, and what did her case show?
  15. 15th January 2005What is the social model of disability, and who is associated with it?
  16. 16th January 2005What is the difference between absolute mobility and relative mobility?
  17. 17th January 2005What is meant by 'formal social control'?
  18. 18th January 2005What is 'secondary deviance'?
  19. 19th January 2005Give one practical factor, beyond theory, that can limit rehabilitation in prison.
  20. 20th January 2005Which report recommended Educational Priority Areas in the UK?
  21. 21st January 2005What is the title of Willis's study of twelve working-class boys?
  22. 22nd January 2005Name the act that made forced marriage a specific criminal offence in England and Wales.
  23. 23rd January 2005What is meant by 'secularisation' in relation to marriage and divorce?
  24. 24th January 2005Give one reason feminists argue money management can remain unequal even in a pooling system.
  25. 25th January 2005What is meant by 'representativeness'?
  26. 26th January 2005What is the 'Hawthorne effect'?
  27. 27th January 2005Explain why a workplace can be described as an agency of socialisation for an adult.
  28. 28th January 2005Give one limitation of using feral or isolated child cases as evidence for nurture.
  29. 29th January 2005Give one example of a 'disabling barrier' under the social model, other than an inaccessible building.
  30. 30th January 2005What is meant by a 'meritocratic' society?
  31. 31st January 2005Name the two agencies of formal social control that decide whether an offender is punished, and state what each one does.